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Thoughts on giving up....
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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 549800" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>TL, your post made me smile, I was glad to read it, it does sound like you've turned a corner and you're on the other side. I was talking to my therapist last night about hope and the two different kinds of hope. One is when our well being is tied to the hope that our difficult child's will get on the straight and narrow path, the other is the hope that they pull it out of the hat, but what they actually do does not hurt our lives. She said the first hope is where we grind away all the time with the quality of our lives constantly impacted by the choices of another. The other is healthy hope, where what another does or doesn't do has little or no negative impact on us, we are still sincerely wishing they get it together, but our joy does not hinge on it. You have moved onto the healthy hope and I think when we do that, our lives change dramatically.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 549800, member: 13542"] TL, your post made me smile, I was glad to read it, it does sound like you've turned a corner and you're on the other side. I was talking to my therapist last night about hope and the two different kinds of hope. One is when our well being is tied to the hope that our difficult child's will get on the straight and narrow path, the other is the hope that they pull it out of the hat, but what they actually do does not hurt our lives. She said the first hope is where we grind away all the time with the quality of our lives constantly impacted by the choices of another. The other is healthy hope, where what another does or doesn't do has little or no negative impact on us, we are still sincerely wishing they get it together, but our joy does not hinge on it. You have moved onto the healthy hope and I think when we do that, our lives change dramatically. [/QUOTE]
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