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<blockquote data-quote="Signorina" data-source="post: 524944"><p>I don't think any of us are over involved. And I don't think it needs to be a contest over whose kid is at most risk or whose child has lost the most or even which parent has done too much or not enough.</p><p></p><p>We're here because we care about or kids and we are worried about them. And we see the freight train barreling at them and they won't hear the horn. We're here because our kids aren't making a conscientious decision to put themselves in harm's way-they are checking out of life, out of their loving families with no thought to AND NO CONCEPT OF the price they will pay. We're here because treatment is our best shot and brightest hope and has a myriad of choices and even the best treatments have a high failure rate. </p><p></p><p>This is my box. I don't wear a sign around my neck that says I am the mom of a burnout and I am missing my boy. I don't call him when my heart is breaking. I spend 23 hours a day living my life, working my job, parenting my younger boys, being a friend, a mother and a partner and lover.</p><p></p><p>When I am here, I'm here because it's supposed to be a judgment-free, SOFT place to land. I know there are parents on other boards who don't get it-that's why I am on this board. To be with parents of addicts who DO UNDERSTAND how I feel and don't judge me as a bad mom because my kid is a loser who is stoned all the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Signorina, post: 524944"] I don't think any of us are over involved. And I don't think it needs to be a contest over whose kid is at most risk or whose child has lost the most or even which parent has done too much or not enough. We're here because we care about or kids and we are worried about them. And we see the freight train barreling at them and they won't hear the horn. We're here because our kids aren't making a conscientious decision to put themselves in harm's way-they are checking out of life, out of their loving families with no thought to AND NO CONCEPT OF the price they will pay. We're here because treatment is our best shot and brightest hope and has a myriad of choices and even the best treatments have a high failure rate. This is my box. I don't wear a sign around my neck that says I am the mom of a burnout and I am missing my boy. I don't call him when my heart is breaking. I spend 23 hours a day living my life, working my job, parenting my younger boys, being a friend, a mother and a partner and lover. When I am here, I'm here because it's supposed to be a judgment-free, SOFT place to land. I know there are parents on other boards who don't get it-that's why I am on this board. To be with parents of addicts who DO UNDERSTAND how I feel and don't judge me as a bad mom because my kid is a loser who is stoned all the time. [/QUOTE]
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