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<blockquote data-quote="Addictsmom" data-source="post: 626235" data-attributes="member: 17748"><p>Found this on another older thread on this forum. I am fairly new to the board so don't know how to link to the post, so I am going to try to copy and paste part of the post that I thought might be of some help to you. This is another letter from an addict to his parents.</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>There are a few things you can do if you really want to help me. I know by telling you these things Im actually cutting off my main money source you. I will never stop using as long as you keep giving me money or supporting me. I can only stop using when I hit my bottom and only I can put down the shovel and quit digging. When you bail me out, buy me a car, pay for my rent or give me money you arent helping me at all; you are only handing me the shovel again and telling me to keep digging. You keep letting me come back home to live because you think youre helping me out but if your honest, youll realize that you are doing it for purely selfish reasons. When you know Im in the room next door you sleep better. The last thing Ill confess to you is the real reason I steal from you. I steal from you because Im counting on you not calling the cops on me. I count on you not wanting me to go to jail; to have a criminal record. I steal from you because you keep letting me move back home.Read more: <a href="http://www.conductdisorders.com/community/threads/a-letter-from-a-drug-addict-your-child.31781/#ixzz30szt6SE8" target="_blank"><u>http://www.conductdisorders.com/community/threads/a-letter-from-a-drug-addict-your-child.31781/#ixzz30szt6SE8</u></a></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Addictsmom, post: 626235, member: 17748"] Found this on another older thread on this forum. I am fairly new to the board so don't know how to link to the post, so I am going to try to copy and paste part of the post that I thought might be of some help to you. This is another letter from an addict to his parents. [B]There are a few things you can do if you really want to help me. I know by telling you these things Im actually cutting off my main money source you. I will never stop using as long as you keep giving me money or supporting me. I can only stop using when I hit my bottom and only I can put down the shovel and quit digging. When you bail me out, buy me a car, pay for my rent or give me money you arent helping me at all; you are only handing me the shovel again and telling me to keep digging. You keep letting me come back home to live because you think youre helping me out but if your honest, youll realize that you are doing it for purely selfish reasons. When you know Im in the room next door you sleep better. The last thing Ill confess to you is the real reason I steal from you. I steal from you because Im counting on you not calling the cops on me. I count on you not wanting me to go to jail; to have a criminal record. I steal from you because you keep letting me move back home.Read more: [URL='http://www.conductdisorders.com/community/threads/a-letter-from-a-drug-addict-your-child.31781/#ixzz30szt6SE8'][U]http://www.conductdisorders.com/community/threads/a-letter-from-a-drug-addict-your-child.31781/#ixzz30szt6SE8[/U][/URL][/B] [/QUOTE]
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