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<blockquote data-quote="KFld" data-source="post: 35812" data-attributes="member: 2442"><p>When my difficult child was using I couldn't leave a quarter on the table without it dissapearing and I couldn't leave him in a room by himself. One time my easy child daughter left her purse on the table, not thinking, then came back out and said $20.00 was missing. Of course they got in a huge screaming battle and she left because she felt we were taking his side, he started crying saying how bad it sucked to not have people trust you and not to be able to live home anymore and yada yada yada. We hadn't seen him take it, but of course we knew he did. So there wasn't much we could do about it besides remind her not to ever leave anything where he could get it. Not that we were blaming her, but it happened so many times in the past and we knew when he was using he was stealing so my thought behind it was don't leave anything around, then you can't wonder if he took it. He could then convince us and himself that he didn't do it and I know there were many times I thought I had 20.00 more before he left and then second guessed myself. </p><p></p><p>Even now that he's clean, I won't leave anything around when he comes to visit and easy child daughter locks her bedroom door. I still don't like even going to the bathroom if somebody else isn't in the house with him while he's here. </p><p></p><p>It's an awful feeling, but I guess the only solution is don't have them over, or lock up everything that isn't nailed down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KFld, post: 35812, member: 2442"] When my difficult child was using I couldn't leave a quarter on the table without it dissapearing and I couldn't leave him in a room by himself. One time my easy child daughter left her purse on the table, not thinking, then came back out and said $20.00 was missing. Of course they got in a huge screaming battle and she left because she felt we were taking his side, he started crying saying how bad it sucked to not have people trust you and not to be able to live home anymore and yada yada yada. We hadn't seen him take it, but of course we knew he did. So there wasn't much we could do about it besides remind her not to ever leave anything where he could get it. Not that we were blaming her, but it happened so many times in the past and we knew when he was using he was stealing so my thought behind it was don't leave anything around, then you can't wonder if he took it. He could then convince us and himself that he didn't do it and I know there were many times I thought I had 20.00 more before he left and then second guessed myself. Even now that he's clean, I won't leave anything around when he comes to visit and easy child daughter locks her bedroom door. I still don't like even going to the bathroom if somebody else isn't in the house with him while he's here. It's an awful feeling, but I guess the only solution is don't have them over, or lock up everything that isn't nailed down. [/QUOTE]
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