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My son's drug addiction will not destroy me.
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 671263" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>He is walking his own path. He is finding his way. That is the answer and that is the truth.</p><p></p><p>Anybody with a spiritual sense will understand and honor that. It is not in the particulars. He is finding his way through the wilderness. There was a time there was honor in that. To me, there still is.</p><p></p><p>People for ions and ions have rejected the conventional path to seek themselves. They have often used drugs to do so. Believe me, I do not endorse it, it is not my place. Nor am I trivializing the dangers and the fear.</p><p></p><p>In your religion are there not Saints who have wandered and then returned? (Sorry, I do not know much about Catholicism.) They may not have used drugs, but I am sure their mothers were worried.</p><p></p><p>Your son will find himself. On this road he is on he will encounter himself along the way. We must accept his way. There is nothing else to do. Think if it as a pilgrimage. (I hope you do not get mad at me. I do not mean disrespect.)</p><p></p><p>Cedar talks about her kids doing everything the hard way. Why? I think they seek to learn what there is to learn about their lives and "life" and themselves fully and completely. Not second or third hand.</p><p>There is a dignity and courage to that, I think.</p><p></p><p>Nor should you lose this. This is self-denial and self-punishment. Stop it. Nothing about this is your fault. It is not your fault. You do not deserve to suffer or to deny yourself what you love.</p><p>Go. Next Sunday. If there is a practice, go to that.</p><p></p><p>La Mesa Mom, what else do you love to do? Besides the choir, and walking on the beach. I love that too.</p><p></p><p>Did you read where I grew up right on the Pacific? I miss it, so. I will always miss it. My Mother who died two years ago grew up where I did, right on the sea. The last 50 years of her life she lived in the San Fernando Valley. She told me at the end of her life that in her dreams she was there by the sea. And when she woke up she felt displaced wondering, What am I doing <em>here</em>? She hated the cold. But she still yearned on some level to be back to the coast.</p><p></p><p>La Mesa Mom, you are never, ever alone with this.</p><p></p><p>COPA</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 671263, member: 18958"] He is walking his own path. He is finding his way. That is the answer and that is the truth. Anybody with a spiritual sense will understand and honor that. It is not in the particulars. He is finding his way through the wilderness. There was a time there was honor in that. To me, there still is. People for ions and ions have rejected the conventional path to seek themselves. They have often used drugs to do so. Believe me, I do not endorse it, it is not my place. Nor am I trivializing the dangers and the fear. In your religion are there not Saints who have wandered and then returned? (Sorry, I do not know much about Catholicism.) They may not have used drugs, but I am sure their mothers were worried. Your son will find himself. On this road he is on he will encounter himself along the way. We must accept his way. There is nothing else to do. Think if it as a pilgrimage. (I hope you do not get mad at me. I do not mean disrespect.) Cedar talks about her kids doing everything the hard way. Why? I think they seek to learn what there is to learn about their lives and "life" and themselves fully and completely. Not second or third hand. There is a dignity and courage to that, I think. Nor should you lose this. This is self-denial and self-punishment. Stop it. Nothing about this is your fault. It is not your fault. You do not deserve to suffer or to deny yourself what you love. Go. Next Sunday. If there is a practice, go to that. La Mesa Mom, what else do you love to do? Besides the choir, and walking on the beach. I love that too. Did you read where I grew up right on the Pacific? I miss it, so. I will always miss it. My Mother who died two years ago grew up where I did, right on the sea. The last 50 years of her life she lived in the San Fernando Valley. She told me at the end of her life that in her dreams she was there by the sea. And when she woke up she felt displaced wondering, What am I doing [I]here[/I]? She hated the cold. But she still yearned on some level to be back to the coast. La Mesa Mom, you are never, ever alone with this. COPA [/QUOTE]
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