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<blockquote data-quote="nlj" data-source="post: 632261" data-attributes="member: 17650"><p>Hello End</p><p>My life is back on track. I have detached from my son, not in a physical way, but he no longer fills up my head throughout all my waking hours, because I have accepted his choices and accepted his lifestyle and I let him get on with it. I do not fund it or condone it, I just let him get on with it.</p><p>I do not have any grandchildren so my situation is nowhere near as difficult as yours, but I just wanted to say that there <em>are</em> posts on here from parents who have found a way to live with what is.</p><p></p><p></p><p>We can't solve your problems End, that's not what this site does, we can only share "words words words", and share experiences and offer different ways to look at our situations. Things change, we can't focus on the life we wanted and planned and have that set in stone and assume it will happen. Divorce, illness, crisis, all these things and more are part of life and come along and kick us where it hurts. We have to accept what is, and adapt, and find ways to cope. You have to find the positive.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Isn't there any positive in that?</p><p></p><p>I divorced at the age of 40 with grown up children, I had 'fun' for a few years, then met a man who was the single father of a baby. Now I am 52, married with a ten year old step-daughter. Definitely not what I planned, but meant to be and certainly full of positives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nlj, post: 632261, member: 17650"] Hello End My life is back on track. I have detached from my son, not in a physical way, but he no longer fills up my head throughout all my waking hours, because I have accepted his choices and accepted his lifestyle and I let him get on with it. I do not fund it or condone it, I just let him get on with it. I do not have any grandchildren so my situation is nowhere near as difficult as yours, but I just wanted to say that there [I]are[/I] posts on here from parents who have found a way to live with what is. We can't solve your problems End, that's not what this site does, we can only share "words words words", and share experiences and offer different ways to look at our situations. Things change, we can't focus on the life we wanted and planned and have that set in stone and assume it will happen. Divorce, illness, crisis, all these things and more are part of life and come along and kick us where it hurts. We have to accept what is, and adapt, and find ways to cope. You have to find the positive. Isn't there any positive in that? I divorced at the age of 40 with grown up children, I had 'fun' for a few years, then met a man who was the single father of a baby. Now I am 52, married with a ten year old step-daughter. Definitely not what I planned, but meant to be and certainly full of positives. [/QUOTE]
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