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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 640960" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>This is what I think I know. Whatever my response has been ~ and I have been able to change my tone very much, since being back on this site ~ difficult child son will work that into his next...I don't want to say attack really, but it does feel like he employs an "attack" strategy. Wherever I think I am protected, he finds another area where I am not protected. It is such a hard thing to be that mother I know now that I need to be. Sometimes, I repeat the things I have written down for myself by rote. You would think I would be able to do what MWM does and gently let him go. </p><p></p><p>Maybe that is where I am going, next.</p><p></p><p>I just wanted you to know that I know how hard it was to speak those words you intended to say to your son.</p><p></p><p>It doesn't feel much like courage, when we say those words, but it is.</p><p></p><p>You did great.</p><p></p><p>Small steps are still steps.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 640960, member: 17461"] This is what I think I know. Whatever my response has been ~ and I have been able to change my tone very much, since being back on this site ~ difficult child son will work that into his next...I don't want to say attack really, but it does feel like he employs an "attack" strategy. Wherever I think I am protected, he finds another area where I am not protected. It is such a hard thing to be that mother I know now that I need to be. Sometimes, I repeat the things I have written down for myself by rote. You would think I would be able to do what MWM does and gently let him go. Maybe that is where I am going, next. I just wanted you to know that I know how hard it was to speak those words you intended to say to your son. It doesn't feel much like courage, when we say those words, but it is. You did great. Small steps are still steps. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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