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<blockquote data-quote="PatriotsGirl" data-source="post: 414019"><p>I wish I could follow the advice I gave you....difficult child called me on my way home yesterday and I got sucked right back in. She sounded depressed and didn't exactly sound like things are very good for her right now. Yet she STILL won't go to treatment. She says she wants to live a normal life but that we want her to go to rehab and she refuses. I asked her if being homeless is better and she said yes! Ugh. She says places she has been staying have been getting raided. She has been lucky so far but it is just a matter of time before she is in the wrong place at the wrong time and she will go to jail. I try to tell her turning herself in would be better because the longer the time goes by, the harder they are going to throw the book at her. She says she knows but refuses to do the right thing. She claims we have all been dealt our cards in life. I told her she has all the power to decide which cards to keep and which ones to throw away...nothing gets through to her. Nothing. </p><p>I understand where you are coming from. The mom in me wants to run and save her, too. But what good has that done each time we have done that? I have ran to save her several times and each time we ended up in the same place. This is the hardest part of parenting ever, Nancy, but we have to do it. For them. Or they will NEVER pick themselves up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PatriotsGirl, post: 414019"] I wish I could follow the advice I gave you....difficult child called me on my way home yesterday and I got sucked right back in. She sounded depressed and didn't exactly sound like things are very good for her right now. Yet she STILL won't go to treatment. She says she wants to live a normal life but that we want her to go to rehab and she refuses. I asked her if being homeless is better and she said yes! Ugh. She says places she has been staying have been getting raided. She has been lucky so far but it is just a matter of time before she is in the wrong place at the wrong time and she will go to jail. I try to tell her turning herself in would be better because the longer the time goes by, the harder they are going to throw the book at her. She says she knows but refuses to do the right thing. She claims we have all been dealt our cards in life. I told her she has all the power to decide which cards to keep and which ones to throw away...nothing gets through to her. Nothing. I understand where you are coming from. The mom in me wants to run and save her, too. But what good has that done each time we have done that? I have ran to save her several times and each time we ended up in the same place. This is the hardest part of parenting ever, Nancy, but we have to do it. For them. Or they will NEVER pick themselves up. [/QUOTE]
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