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It's been a week since we heard from difficult child
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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 481903" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>After careful thought and discussion, husband and I have decided to stick with the original plan. It's not like we are cutting difficult child out of Thanksgiving entirely . . . we are just not taking her along to our afternoon visit to our friend's house due to past behavior. We will still meet her later as planned and eat a light supper with her.</p><p></p><p>By the time we left her yesterday she seemed okay with that. I thought she would say something spiteful and refuse to see us at all but she said that she did want to meet us later in the day. Of course, she laid on the guilt trip about otherwise she would just be staying in bed all day.</p><p></p><p>I do have to say that she has stopped all the crazy talk about the halfway house and claims to have seen their counselor twice last week and attended a meeting each day. She also didn't argue when I pointed out in the past she had stood us up many holidays after we had changed our plans to accommodate her. </p><p></p><p>difficult child did say that they had been told they needed to spend time doing sober activities and asked if we would pay for her to go with a friend to see the Picasso exhibit at the High Museum. I told her that I would look into it. When I got home I thought about the $225 that I had just spent and decided that difficult child's time would be better spent looking for a job so she could help with the expenses.</p><p></p><p>She called today and asked about the ticket and I explained my thinking and she didn't argue and said she was going to the mall tomorrow to start putting in applications.</p><p></p><p>That's my difficult child . . . going to an art exhibit from a halfway house without a penny to her name and expecting me to pay for it. Even worse . . . I almost did.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 481903, member: 1967"] After careful thought and discussion, husband and I have decided to stick with the original plan. It's not like we are cutting difficult child out of Thanksgiving entirely . . . we are just not taking her along to our afternoon visit to our friend's house due to past behavior. We will still meet her later as planned and eat a light supper with her. By the time we left her yesterday she seemed okay with that. I thought she would say something spiteful and refuse to see us at all but she said that she did want to meet us later in the day. Of course, she laid on the guilt trip about otherwise she would just be staying in bed all day. I do have to say that she has stopped all the crazy talk about the halfway house and claims to have seen their counselor twice last week and attended a meeting each day. She also didn't argue when I pointed out in the past she had stood us up many holidays after we had changed our plans to accommodate her. difficult child did say that they had been told they needed to spend time doing sober activities and asked if we would pay for her to go with a friend to see the Picasso exhibit at the High Museum. I told her that I would look into it. When I got home I thought about the $225 that I had just spent and decided that difficult child's time would be better spent looking for a job so she could help with the expenses. She called today and asked about the ticket and I explained my thinking and she didn't argue and said she was going to the mall tomorrow to start putting in applications. That's my difficult child . . . going to an art exhibit from a halfway house without a penny to her name and expecting me to pay for it. Even worse . . . I almost did. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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