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<blockquote data-quote="SeekingStrength" data-source="post: 631616" data-attributes="member: 17635"><p>Hey Lil,</p><p></p><p>Chiming in again. husband and i just returned from a two-night trip to a nice, relaxing quaint vacation town...so I feel refreshed.</p><p></p><p>I have been thinking about you and your son, and i believe, if i had found this forum when difficult child was 19 or 20, i may very well have felt much like you. Instead, I found this forum when our difficult child was 32, after years and years of that behavior. From time to time, posters point out that we can only share, based on our own experiences. Uh, yeah. What other lens could we possibly use? Also, there are references to a <em>difficult child handbook. </em>While it may not be available via amazon.com, i swear it must exist.</p><p></p><p>The manipulation, based on what has worked for them in the past, is very real.....and, of course!! Once some of us see it for what it is, that is HUGE.</p><p></p><p>Stay alert, not for what you have seen in the past. Read through so many, many stories on this forum. You will find numerous like your own. You will see common threads about what has not worked. I know, giving in to our son, here and there because we were trying so very hard to HELP him, did <strong>not</strong> work. husband and i wish we had bowed out, so that difficult child could have found a way without us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SeekingStrength, post: 631616, member: 17635"] Hey Lil, Chiming in again. husband and i just returned from a two-night trip to a nice, relaxing quaint vacation town...so I feel refreshed. I have been thinking about you and your son, and i believe, if i had found this forum when difficult child was 19 or 20, i may very well have felt much like you. Instead, I found this forum when our difficult child was 32, after years and years of that behavior. From time to time, posters point out that we can only share, based on our own experiences. Uh, yeah. What other lens could we possibly use? Also, there are references to a [I]difficult child handbook. [/I]While it may not be available via amazon.com, i swear it must exist. The manipulation, based on what has worked for them in the past, is very real.....and, of course!! Once some of us see it for what it is, that is HUGE. Stay alert, not for what you have seen in the past. Read through so many, many stories on this forum. You will find numerous like your own. You will see common threads about what has not worked. I know, giving in to our son, here and there because we were trying so very hard to HELP him, did [B]not[/B] work. husband and i wish we had bowed out, so that difficult child could have found a way without us. [/QUOTE]
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