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<blockquote data-quote="Steely" data-source="post: 70478" data-attributes="member: 3301"><p><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: scent of cedar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"></p><p>And I just shiver. I know exactly how that situation transpired.</p><p></p><p>One day, one decision, at a time, that's how.</p><p></p><p>Some of us spend our entire lives in the service of our child's addiction.</p><p></p><p>But it does not help the child, or change his situation. </p><p> </div></div></p><p></p><p>Gosh Barbara, you are SO right. I just saw a thing on the local news about this son, 50 something, who shot and killed his mom, 70 something. The neighbors said that the son had been living with the mom, <em>again</em>, and despite the son physically continually abusing her, she kept taking him back into her home. This had been going on for FIFTY years!!! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/tired.gif </p><p>I thought to myself ~ there is a prime example of a mom so entrenched in abuse, enabling, and denial, that she died because of it. Sad, sad, sad.......but yet, on a smaller scale, it happens every day to moms and dads who cannot detach.</p><p></p><p>I do not want to be one of those people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steely, post: 70478, member: 3301"] <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: scent of cedar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> And I just shiver. I know exactly how that situation transpired. One day, one decision, at a time, that's how. Some of us spend our entire lives in the service of our child's addiction. But it does not help the child, or change his situation. </div></div> Gosh Barbara, you are SO right. I just saw a thing on the local news about this son, 50 something, who shot and killed his mom, 70 something. The neighbors said that the son had been living with the mom, [i]again[/i], and despite the son physically continually abusing her, she kept taking him back into her home. This had been going on for FIFTY years!!! [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/tired.gif[/img] I thought to myself ~ there is a prime example of a mom so entrenched in abuse, enabling, and denial, that she died because of it. Sad, sad, sad.......but yet, on a smaller scale, it happens every day to moms and dads who cannot detach. I do not want to be one of those people. [/QUOTE]
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