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Help please! I need to ask if I was a bad mother. Feel like one.
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<blockquote data-quote="Scott_G" data-source="post: 609612" data-attributes="member: 16626"><p>My opinion on this may be a bit extreme, but here goes... When I was in college I got arrested and spent a night in jail. I hadn't lived with my parents for two years when it happened. I handled the situation like a MAN. Luckily my roommate at the time was an intern at a law firm. I asked him to talk to one of the lawyers at work and see if I could get representation for a fair price because I was a broke college student. The attorney agreed to represent me for $150, payable in installments. I paid him with my own money from my part time job. I NEVER asked my parents for help or even told them what happened. Why should I? What good would it do for anyone? I am an adult and I created my problems, and I am responsible for dealing with them. I thought then, as I do now, that being needy and making your parents an emotional dumping ground when you are an adult is both selfish and immature. My parents have their own lives, and I am a big boy. My problems are my problems, and I don't need them as a cheering section in every thing I go through in life. A grown man who is really a grown man and not a little boy in a mans body should not need to unload his emotional baggage on his mommy on a daily basis or need constant parental support. Before our son went no contact, it was daily drama. He called or stopped by regularly and constantly whined about hpw miserable he was and about all the problems in his life. All it served to do was get his mother upset, which in turn got me angry. He needs to be a MAN ad deal with his own problems, problems he created.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott_G, post: 609612, member: 16626"] My opinion on this may be a bit extreme, but here goes... When I was in college I got arrested and spent a night in jail. I hadn't lived with my parents for two years when it happened. I handled the situation like a MAN. Luckily my roommate at the time was an intern at a law firm. I asked him to talk to one of the lawyers at work and see if I could get representation for a fair price because I was a broke college student. The attorney agreed to represent me for $150, payable in installments. I paid him with my own money from my part time job. I NEVER asked my parents for help or even told them what happened. Why should I? What good would it do for anyone? I am an adult and I created my problems, and I am responsible for dealing with them. I thought then, as I do now, that being needy and making your parents an emotional dumping ground when you are an adult is both selfish and immature. My parents have their own lives, and I am a big boy. My problems are my problems, and I don't need them as a cheering section in every thing I go through in life. A grown man who is really a grown man and not a little boy in a mans body should not need to unload his emotional baggage on his mommy on a daily basis or need constant parental support. Before our son went no contact, it was daily drama. He called or stopped by regularly and constantly whined about hpw miserable he was and about all the problems in his life. All it served to do was get his mother upset, which in turn got me angry. He needs to be a MAN ad deal with his own problems, problems he created. [/QUOTE]
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