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<blockquote data-quote="Calamity Jane" data-source="post: 507775" data-attributes="member: 13882"><p>I'm so sorry for your troubles. This is the first I've ever heard that a grocery card can be exchanged for a Shell card. I give my son grocery cards, thinking he will use them as intended. How stupid of me! If they could only use their resourcefulness in a non-bizarre way, it would be a marvelous thing.</p><p>I hear you when you write about adoption and abandonment issues. My husband has a real hangup about that, and I think that's why he's given him a pass every time, because husband says we need to "walk a mile in his shoes." I disagree, but my husband says we weren't adopted, so we can't truly understand where difficult children coming from. on the other hand, my son has ALWAYS said he never felt abandoned, and never felt that we weren't his family. difficult children therapist said he has seen countless adoption/SA issues due to abandonment issues that may be repressed, but my son said it was bunk. Go figure.</p><p>In my son's case, this may sound odd, but I think he finds decency and clean living boring. He despises authority, and I believe he gets a kick out of conning people, esp. family. Where that comes from, I have no idea. </p><p>We continue to try to detach, but like Michael Corleone says in the Godfather, "Every time I think I'm out, they keep pulling me back in."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calamity Jane, post: 507775, member: 13882"] I'm so sorry for your troubles. This is the first I've ever heard that a grocery card can be exchanged for a Shell card. I give my son grocery cards, thinking he will use them as intended. How stupid of me! If they could only use their resourcefulness in a non-bizarre way, it would be a marvelous thing. I hear you when you write about adoption and abandonment issues. My husband has a real hangup about that, and I think that's why he's given him a pass every time, because husband says we need to "walk a mile in his shoes." I disagree, but my husband says we weren't adopted, so we can't truly understand where difficult children coming from. on the other hand, my son has ALWAYS said he never felt abandoned, and never felt that we weren't his family. difficult children therapist said he has seen countless adoption/SA issues due to abandonment issues that may be repressed, but my son said it was bunk. Go figure. In my son's case, this may sound odd, but I think he finds decency and clean living boring. He despises authority, and I believe he gets a kick out of conning people, esp. family. Where that comes from, I have no idea. We continue to try to detach, but like Michael Corleone says in the Godfather, "Every time I think I'm out, they keep pulling me back in." [/QUOTE]
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