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<blockquote data-quote="katya02" data-source="post: 172540" data-attributes="member: 2884"><p>Hey, thanks everyone for your support and good wishes. I just got back from 7 1/2 hours' driving, taking difficult child to a court appearance. It went remarkably smoothly. Might have something to do with the fact that I flipped out at difficult child on the weekend (during our family July 4th outing) when he was rude to me twice ... laid it on the line that he could not do this, and that I was fully prepared to drop him on the side of the highway on the way to his court appearance if he offered any more rudeness or contemptuous behavior. And that if I had to do this, he would go to jail for missing his court appearance. He was shocked. husband was shocked (and depressed). But eventually difficult child apologized, and today he apologized again. </p><p></p><p>One of the frustrating and disconcerting things in all this is that it feels like I have two sons - one, the sensitive, polite son of today who cried when he listened to the song 'Into the West' from the Lord of the Rings soundtrack; the other, the angry, abusive son who makes me feel all is lost. I've been reading David Sheff's book 'Beautiful Boy' in small doses - have to put it down often and cry because it hits too close to home.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="katya02, post: 172540, member: 2884"] Hey, thanks everyone for your support and good wishes. I just got back from 7 1/2 hours' driving, taking difficult child to a court appearance. It went remarkably smoothly. Might have something to do with the fact that I flipped out at difficult child on the weekend (during our family July 4th outing) when he was rude to me twice ... laid it on the line that he could not do this, and that I was fully prepared to drop him on the side of the highway on the way to his court appearance if he offered any more rudeness or contemptuous behavior. And that if I had to do this, he would go to jail for missing his court appearance. He was shocked. husband was shocked (and depressed). But eventually difficult child apologized, and today he apologized again. One of the frustrating and disconcerting things in all this is that it feels like I have two sons - one, the sensitive, polite son of today who cried when he listened to the song 'Into the West' from the Lord of the Rings soundtrack; the other, the angry, abusive son who makes me feel all is lost. I've been reading David Sheff's book 'Beautiful Boy' in small doses - have to put it down often and cry because it hits too close to home. [/QUOTE]
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