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Going home, soon. Know we should not kidnap daughter and bring her home, but....
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<blockquote data-quote="scent of cedar" data-source="post: 591887" data-attributes="member: 1721"><p>And there is my (our) place to stand. You are right, signorina. We do need a pressure valve, and this is a good one. Half the time, I was serious about throwing difficult child in the car and speeding off into the (hour away) distance of our house. husband gets this haunted look in his eyes when I talk like that ~ he has seen me focus every bit of energy and attention on one difficult child or the other, to the exclusion of everything and everyone else, too many times. Even if she came willingly, underlying everything is our understanding that whatever WE do, difficult child is the one who needs to beat the addiction. Hopeless, desperate, trapped...what could counter those feelings? </p><p></p><p>Laughter. </p><p></p><p>Laughter!</p><p></p><p>Sick as the humor is going to be, signorina, imagining all the goofy, crazy, horrible things that might happen if we did snitch difficult child will get us through this in one piece.</p><p></p><p>How we perceive it is what leaves us helpless/hopeless.</p><p></p><p>But here is the key. How WE perceive it doesn't matter. All we really HAVE to do is just what Recovering said ~ protect ourselves financially, and protect our lives from the time we would waste focusing, one more time, exclusively on difficult child. If we can find a way to acknowledge and vent the worst of the emotional baggage attending powerlessness without hurting difficult child or ourselves ~ perfect.</p><p></p><p>So, in my imagination? I am saving difficult child right this minute. In a magical, Spanx-inspired costume which shows no bulges and never needs cleaning. No matter how many ******* drug-dealers I blow away. </p><p></p><p>:O)</p><p></p><p>You can just call me...Dirty Barbara</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scent of cedar, post: 591887, member: 1721"] And there is my (our) place to stand. You are right, signorina. We do need a pressure valve, and this is a good one. Half the time, I was serious about throwing difficult child in the car and speeding off into the (hour away) distance of our house. husband gets this haunted look in his eyes when I talk like that ~ he has seen me focus every bit of energy and attention on one difficult child or the other, to the exclusion of everything and everyone else, too many times. Even if she came willingly, underlying everything is our understanding that whatever WE do, difficult child is the one who needs to beat the addiction. Hopeless, desperate, trapped...what could counter those feelings? Laughter. Laughter! Sick as the humor is going to be, signorina, imagining all the goofy, crazy, horrible things that might happen if we did snitch difficult child will get us through this in one piece. How we perceive it is what leaves us helpless/hopeless. But here is the key. How WE perceive it doesn't matter. All we really HAVE to do is just what Recovering said ~ protect ourselves financially, and protect our lives from the time we would waste focusing, one more time, exclusively on difficult child. If we can find a way to acknowledge and vent the worst of the emotional baggage attending powerlessness without hurting difficult child or ourselves ~ perfect. So, in my imagination? I am saving difficult child right this minute. In a magical, Spanx-inspired costume which shows no bulges and never needs cleaning. No matter how many ******* drug-dealers I blow away. :O) You can just call me...Dirty Barbara [/QUOTE]
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