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In desperate need of input from the only people that KNOW what being the parent of a difficult child really is!
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 635675" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>I think I have a somewhat unique view on this situation. My parents divorced after about 30 years of marriage when I was about 19 years old. I had already married. My marriage isnt what this is all about though...it is about my dad and his whole new life.</p><p></p><p>Long and convoluted story which could only happen in my life is that my mom had a best friend since the time I was 9. This woman had ended up divorcing somewhere along the way and her kids were around my age...one my exact age, the other two a couple of years older and younger. I wasnt friends with my mom's best friends kids but we all knew each other. When my mom made the mistake of telling her best friend about the divorce evidently her best friend decided my dad was a catch. Not that I dont think he was a wonderful man but he was also about 10 to 12 years older than her and he was very old fashioned about things. </p><p></p><p>So anyway....after they got married - which I was obviously not there for because I was told it wouldnt be good for a 7 month pregnant daughter, especially one not pregnant from her husband who was now her ex husband. Oh but my step mom's son who was a couple of months from being 18 could move into their new home with them even though he had been living with his father. And this same boy lived with them until he was about 24 because he was a bit special. See....his father is severely bipolar and they were afraid chris was going to be too. He isnt. They just let him lay up in the bedroom, watch video's and play the guitar. </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, I got divorced, my mom was well, crazy as a loon and wanted me to end up homeless. I had three kids by the time I was 24. I was now living with a man my father would have never picked for me...a country bumpkin. His upper middle class daughter had become trailer park trash. My step mom never let me forget it either. Oh she pretended to love me and the kids. For him. The day after he died she took every picture we had ever given him or he had taken of me and the boys and gave them back to us. </p><p></p><p>Her kids could do no wrong and I could do not right. We found it amusing that HER grandson was wasted on weed at my fathers funeral and MY boys werent.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 635675, member: 1514"] I think I have a somewhat unique view on this situation. My parents divorced after about 30 years of marriage when I was about 19 years old. I had already married. My marriage isnt what this is all about though...it is about my dad and his whole new life. Long and convoluted story which could only happen in my life is that my mom had a best friend since the time I was 9. This woman had ended up divorcing somewhere along the way and her kids were around my age...one my exact age, the other two a couple of years older and younger. I wasnt friends with my mom's best friends kids but we all knew each other. When my mom made the mistake of telling her best friend about the divorce evidently her best friend decided my dad was a catch. Not that I dont think he was a wonderful man but he was also about 10 to 12 years older than her and he was very old fashioned about things. So anyway....after they got married - which I was obviously not there for because I was told it wouldnt be good for a 7 month pregnant daughter, especially one not pregnant from her husband who was now her ex husband. Oh but my step mom's son who was a couple of months from being 18 could move into their new home with them even though he had been living with his father. And this same boy lived with them until he was about 24 because he was a bit special. See....his father is severely bipolar and they were afraid chris was going to be too. He isnt. They just let him lay up in the bedroom, watch video's and play the guitar. Meanwhile, I got divorced, my mom was well, crazy as a loon and wanted me to end up homeless. I had three kids by the time I was 24. I was now living with a man my father would have never picked for me...a country bumpkin. His upper middle class daughter had become trailer park trash. My step mom never let me forget it either. Oh she pretended to love me and the kids. For him. The day after he died she took every picture we had ever given him or he had taken of me and the boys and gave them back to us. Her kids could do no wrong and I could do not right. We found it amusing that HER grandson was wasted on weed at my fathers funeral and MY boys werent. [/QUOTE]
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