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I need encouragement to do the right thing...
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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 602152" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>DDD made some excellent points. We signed over the title of our difficult child's car to her and made her have her own insurance policy long ago. We wanted to make sure that we had no financial liability in case she drove drunk or high and had an accident.</p><p></p><p>If your difficult child has a key to your house then you need to change the locks. Also, I have found that I need to limit contact with my difficult child for now so she can't keep making threats to hurt herself which she knows has a big effect on me. She was holding me emotionally hostage. So I have blocked her texts and have her calls sent straight to voicemail. If she leaves a message, I can choose to listen to it or not and choose to call her back or not.</p><p></p><p>In fact, my therapist has suggested that we tell her that we need to set up a weekly call and stick to that schedule. That way we can get off the roller coaster that she has us on. If she becomes inappropriate in the call, then we can end the call and tell her that we will talk to her in a week. We'll see how this goes.</p><p></p><p>I'm sure others will have suggestions, too.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 602152, member: 1967"] DDD made some excellent points. We signed over the title of our difficult child's car to her and made her have her own insurance policy long ago. We wanted to make sure that we had no financial liability in case she drove drunk or high and had an accident. If your difficult child has a key to your house then you need to change the locks. Also, I have found that I need to limit contact with my difficult child for now so she can't keep making threats to hurt herself which she knows has a big effect on me. She was holding me emotionally hostage. So I have blocked her texts and have her calls sent straight to voicemail. If she leaves a message, I can choose to listen to it or not and choose to call her back or not. In fact, my therapist has suggested that we tell her that we need to set up a weekly call and stick to that schedule. That way we can get off the roller coaster that she has us on. If she becomes inappropriate in the call, then we can end the call and tell her that we will talk to her in a week. We'll see how this goes. I'm sure others will have suggestions, too. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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