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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 259871" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>I'm glad to hear that your husband is doing better. From my own personal experience as a parent who has guilt and as a daughter who has resentment, the best thing your husband can do for him and his kids is to apologize and keep moving forward. Guilt is a draining and useless emotion, unless you haven't made amends. None of us can change the poor decisions we made in the past, but we can be better people today and in the future. </p><p></p><p>His son is a grown man, and he should be able to understand this. It will also allow him to realize that he doesn't always have to be the guy who sleeps all day in his parent's basement, he can be better than that. None of us think that is what we want to grow up to be. We don't always get to live our dream, but even if we don't become a lawyer or a doctor we eventually learn that we can be happy with the choices we are making.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 259871, member: 99"] I'm glad to hear that your husband is doing better. From my own personal experience as a parent who has guilt and as a daughter who has resentment, the best thing your husband can do for him and his kids is to apologize and keep moving forward. Guilt is a draining and useless emotion, unless you haven't made amends. None of us can change the poor decisions we made in the past, but we can be better people today and in the future. His son is a grown man, and he should be able to understand this. It will also allow him to realize that he doesn't always have to be the guy who sleeps all day in his parent's basement, he can be better than that. None of us think that is what we want to grow up to be. We don't always get to live our dream, but even if we don't become a lawyer or a doctor we eventually learn that we can be happy with the choices we are making. [/QUOTE]
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