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<blockquote data-quote="Signorina" data-source="post: 527487"><p>I really don't want to come across as splitting hairs. But my son started to falter in September, managed to stay enrolled in school thru December and didn't go "off the rails" until January. And his issue isn't a broken brain, it IS substance abuse...and it's been less than a year since the substance abuse began. As of March 2011, he was still testing clean.</p><p></p><p>So, I am posting from a very different perspective. And I am not ready to grieve for him yet. Nor am I ready to accept that he is a substance abuser for life. Or at least the near future. Because, he hasn't even attempted recovery once. And I am hoping he will reach a bottom that isn't too bad from which he will be willing to accept help and recovery. And I am not ready to let that hope go.</p><p></p><p>But your post is a good reminder. I hope if he doesn't change, that I am ready to move on from my hope long before he is 39, heck even before he is 24! But I am not ready now. Not when he is 20 and I am 44 and his good choices have more lineage than his active bad choices .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Signorina, post: 527487"] I really don't want to come across as splitting hairs. But my son started to falter in September, managed to stay enrolled in school thru December and didn't go "off the rails" until January. And his issue isn't a broken brain, it IS substance abuse...and it's been less than a year since the substance abuse began. As of March 2011, he was still testing clean. So, I am posting from a very different perspective. And I am not ready to grieve for him yet. Nor am I ready to accept that he is a substance abuser for life. Or at least the near future. Because, he hasn't even attempted recovery once. And I am hoping he will reach a bottom that isn't too bad from which he will be willing to accept help and recovery. And I am not ready to let that hope go. But your post is a good reminder. I hope if he doesn't change, that I am ready to move on from my hope long before he is 39, heck even before he is 24! But I am not ready now. Not when he is 20 and I am 44 and his good choices have more lineage than his active bad choices . [/QUOTE]
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