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<blockquote data-quote="KFld" data-source="post: 30627" data-attributes="member: 2442"><p>I have a wonderful relationship with my 17 year old easy child daughter, but it wasn't easy for her when difficult child was living home and our lives revolved around what he was doing. Luckily I had people around me who constantly reminded me not to let her get lost in all of this. I was very honest with her about what her brother was doing and always filled her in on all the decisions husband and I were making in regards to him. She was very resentful for quite sometime because he was stealing from her and my focus was consumed by him somedays. Luckily for me she is a strong young lady who can actually joke about some of the things that happened in our home during the time difficult child was still living there. In August it will be 2 years since he lived home and luckily we all recovered from all the drama and have moved on into a healthy relatioship between us all. </p><p></p><p>One of the biggest things I joke about, which she doesn't find too funny, is that she just got her license 6 months ago and wants to look for a new car already when she has a really nice one she should keep for awhile. Our difficult child went through a stage of selling, buying, losing cars etc. for the first 3 years he had his license. He actually probably went through about 10 cars in 3 years and when she reminded me of this I told her that she's lucky, we made all our mistakes with him and learned from them, so now we won't make them again with her :smile: so that is why we won't let her sell her car. Like I said, she doesn't find that too funny!</p><p></p><p>My daughter is very mature in some ways and very perceptive, so I think that really helped her handle what was going on. </p><p></p><p>I don't know what I would do without her.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KFld, post: 30627, member: 2442"] I have a wonderful relationship with my 17 year old easy child daughter, but it wasn't easy for her when difficult child was living home and our lives revolved around what he was doing. Luckily I had people around me who constantly reminded me not to let her get lost in all of this. I was very honest with her about what her brother was doing and always filled her in on all the decisions husband and I were making in regards to him. She was very resentful for quite sometime because he was stealing from her and my focus was consumed by him somedays. Luckily for me she is a strong young lady who can actually joke about some of the things that happened in our home during the time difficult child was still living there. In August it will be 2 years since he lived home and luckily we all recovered from all the drama and have moved on into a healthy relatioship between us all. One of the biggest things I joke about, which she doesn't find too funny, is that she just got her license 6 months ago and wants to look for a new car already when she has a really nice one she should keep for awhile. Our difficult child went through a stage of selling, buying, losing cars etc. for the first 3 years he had his license. He actually probably went through about 10 cars in 3 years and when she reminded me of this I told her that she's lucky, we made all our mistakes with him and learned from them, so now we won't make them again with her [img]:smile:[/img] so that is why we won't let her sell her car. Like I said, she doesn't find that too funny! My daughter is very mature in some ways and very perceptive, so I think that really helped her handle what was going on. I don't know what I would do without her. [/QUOTE]
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