Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New profile posts
Latest activity
Internet Search
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Parent Support Forums
Parent Emeritus
Homeless son, 26, how do I cope with this?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 619337" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>Lucy,</p><p>he didn't get better. He has continued to slowly get worse. I did get better. Now I"m working on what some of the other threads talk about...not judging him. Unlike a lot of the other difficult children, he doesn't ask me for much (when he does its big!). We have contributed essentially nothing to his support for 2 years now. He is on his dad's health insurance, but that is normal here. I paid for him to take his GED, which amazingly he actually took and passed (that is a high school equivalency diploma...he dropped out of high school towards the end of his junior year). He is kind of proud of how little he asks for from us. So I don'thave that anger or fight in me, but I despise his begging, his drain on society, his manipulativeness, his selfishness. I liked him better when he was at Occupy! but that was because I allowed myself to believe that he might believe in something...that of course was not true.</p><p>So no, he didn't get better. He was even more lost after Occupy disbanded. His most recent community was a homeless encampment under a bridge down by the river where I go running...that lasted a few months and looked to have a good 50 people there, with lounge chairs picked from the trash, sleeping bags, cardboard boxes, etc. That was busted up by the cops during his last stint in jail in December.</p><p>He likes those places. That is an incredibly hard thing for me to wrap my mind around. IN a way, though, if he is happy....that is better for me than if he is miserable. I think.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 619337, member: 17269"] Lucy, he didn't get better. He has continued to slowly get worse. I did get better. Now I"m working on what some of the other threads talk about...not judging him. Unlike a lot of the other difficult children, he doesn't ask me for much (when he does its big!). We have contributed essentially nothing to his support for 2 years now. He is on his dad's health insurance, but that is normal here. I paid for him to take his GED, which amazingly he actually took and passed (that is a high school equivalency diploma...he dropped out of high school towards the end of his junior year). He is kind of proud of how little he asks for from us. So I don'thave that anger or fight in me, but I despise his begging, his drain on society, his manipulativeness, his selfishness. I liked him better when he was at Occupy! but that was because I allowed myself to believe that he might believe in something...that of course was not true. So no, he didn't get better. He was even more lost after Occupy disbanded. His most recent community was a homeless encampment under a bridge down by the river where I go running...that lasted a few months and looked to have a good 50 people there, with lounge chairs picked from the trash, sleeping bags, cardboard boxes, etc. That was busted up by the cops during his last stint in jail in December. He likes those places. That is an incredibly hard thing for me to wrap my mind around. IN a way, though, if he is happy....that is better for me than if he is miserable. I think. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Parent Support Forums
Parent Emeritus
Homeless son, 26, how do I cope with this?
Top