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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 617244" data-attributes="member: 15801"><p>Hi Diana, I have been thinking about you and have not had a chance to respond to the other thread. I think having them homeless and not knowing where they are etc. is one of the worst things a parent can go through. I was where you are now last winter and it was excrutiating. For me showing him I still loved him, even though I would not let him come home was important and still is....so every now I would text him etc. to that end keeping Communication lines open was important to me. So yes we paid for his phone, got him new phones, sent him a phone when he lost his etc. in the worst of times It let me check cell records to reassure myself he was still alive. The hardest time was a period when he didn't have a phone. You cant control who he calls or what contacts he makes with or without a phone....ultimately you have to do what helps you sleep at night....and for me him having a phone helped me do that. I am sure he used it for unsavory things but he also called us when he needed something or got low enough to get help.</p><p></p><p>Currently he does not have a phone and we won't give him one but that is because he is in a treatment place that does not allow phones and I will not help him break the rules or give him a way to call friends if he decides to walk.....but I can take a strong stand on that because he is safe right now and in a good treatment place,</p><p></p><p>TL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 617244, member: 15801"] Hi Diana, I have been thinking about you and have not had a chance to respond to the other thread. I think having them homeless and not knowing where they are etc. is one of the worst things a parent can go through. I was where you are now last winter and it was excrutiating. For me showing him I still loved him, even though I would not let him come home was important and still is....so every now I would text him etc. to that end keeping Communication lines open was important to me. So yes we paid for his phone, got him new phones, sent him a phone when he lost his etc. in the worst of times It let me check cell records to reassure myself he was still alive. The hardest time was a period when he didn't have a phone. You cant control who he calls or what contacts he makes with or without a phone....ultimately you have to do what helps you sleep at night....and for me him having a phone helped me do that. I am sure he used it for unsavory things but he also called us when he needed something or got low enough to get help. Currently he does not have a phone and we won't give him one but that is because he is in a treatment place that does not allow phones and I will not help him break the rules or give him a way to call friends if he decides to walk.....but I can take a strong stand on that because he is safe right now and in a good treatment place, TL [/QUOTE]
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