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<blockquote data-quote="ScentofCedar" data-source="post: 86633" data-attributes="member: 3353"><p>Stands, it helps me to be strong enough to say the cruel words, to refuse the so simple request for money or a ride or warm clothing when I remind myself that these are the actions required of every parent living through the nightmare situation drug addiction creates.</p><p></p><p>I am not the only one who has had to find the strength to refuse her child.</p><p></p><p>I am not the only one looking in the mirror and wondering how I will survive it if this time, he dies.</p><p></p><p>Moms like us have been required to find and display a strength and coldness entirely alien to our personalities, our prior ways of life and belief systems.</p><p></p><p>But we have to do it, Stands.</p><p></p><p>The other moms who have posted to you are right.</p><p></p><p>The alternative is that your son will be using drugs from home and whatever shreds of your former life are still intact will be endangered.</p><p></p><p>That is why they call it addiction.</p><p></p><p>If the need is met today, it is stronger tomorrow.</p><p></p><p>If the need is not met today, it is still stronger tomorrow.</p><p></p><p>I am so sorry, Stands.</p><p></p><p>For you, and for me.</p><p></p><p>I miss my son, today.</p><p></p><p>Very much.</p><p></p><p>Barbara</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ScentofCedar, post: 86633, member: 3353"] Stands, it helps me to be strong enough to say the cruel words, to refuse the so simple request for money or a ride or warm clothing when I remind myself that these are the actions required of every parent living through the nightmare situation drug addiction creates. I am not the only one who has had to find the strength to refuse her child. I am not the only one looking in the mirror and wondering how I will survive it if this time, he dies. Moms like us have been required to find and display a strength and coldness entirely alien to our personalities, our prior ways of life and belief systems. But we have to do it, Stands. The other moms who have posted to you are right. The alternative is that your son will be using drugs from home and whatever shreds of your former life are still intact will be endangered. That is why they call it addiction. If the need is met today, it is stronger tomorrow. If the need is not met today, it is still stronger tomorrow. I am so sorry, Stands. For you, and for me. I miss my son, today. Very much. Barbara [/QUOTE]
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