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Son says "You are dead to me".....
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<blockquote data-quote="Marys5452" data-source="post: 587552" data-attributes="member: 16098"><p>To DDD: I appreciated your post about not contacting our difficult child's. Right now I am struggling with that. I am the one who posted the idea of paying my difficult child to stay in touch and no one thought it was a good idea. I appreciate knowing that since sometimes I may not be thinking straight so thank you to everyone who responded. It has been one week (I know that is a short time for some of you who have gone months) since we talked. Before, I would call or text 3 or 4 times over the course of as many days and get no call back from her unless she needed money for her medications. I appreciated your advice to not let anyone know how painful this is. I have debated saying something to my difficult child but I have already expressed my frustration over this to her and she always says "I'm sorry. I'll try and do better", but nothing changes. So I am doing my best to hang in there. When she finally does call (money for medications) I am trying to sort out my response. Should I be cheery and upbeat and try to carry on a conversation? In short, pretend everything is normal. It is hard because she is not doing anything so when I ask about her life she has nothing to report. Should I be matter of fact and cut the conversation short since we don't talk about anything anyway? The way I feel now, I may not take the call but let it go to voicemail. Then she will leave her message about how much she needs. I have thought of just replying with a brief text.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marys5452, post: 587552, member: 16098"] To DDD: I appreciated your post about not contacting our difficult child's. Right now I am struggling with that. I am the one who posted the idea of paying my difficult child to stay in touch and no one thought it was a good idea. I appreciate knowing that since sometimes I may not be thinking straight so thank you to everyone who responded. It has been one week (I know that is a short time for some of you who have gone months) since we talked. Before, I would call or text 3 or 4 times over the course of as many days and get no call back from her unless she needed money for her medications. I appreciated your advice to not let anyone know how painful this is. I have debated saying something to my difficult child but I have already expressed my frustration over this to her and she always says "I'm sorry. I'll try and do better", but nothing changes. So I am doing my best to hang in there. When she finally does call (money for medications) I am trying to sort out my response. Should I be cheery and upbeat and try to carry on a conversation? In short, pretend everything is normal. It is hard because she is not doing anything so when I ask about her life she has nothing to report. Should I be matter of fact and cut the conversation short since we don't talk about anything anyway? The way I feel now, I may not take the call but let it go to voicemail. Then she will leave her message about how much she needs. I have thought of just replying with a brief text. [/QUOTE]
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