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Two months later, he's back in the hospital
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 760481" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Dear Deni</p><p></p><p>I think our similar situations are unbearably difficult. I recognize the pattern you describe, of push/pull. Our son's love for and treatment of us is so ambivalent. On the one hand, we're responsible for their suffering, on the other, we're the only ones they can turn to. It's an impossibly impossible situation to be in.</p><p></p><p>My son does similarly. Once again he's back in the rental house I own. Why? Because at the end of the day, I care, and he knows it. It's to hope for incremental change for the better, against a very poor track record, and against the odds. It's only based on love, on hope, and because there is no better option. Sometimes, this is what love looks like.</p><p></p><p>i recognize that to others I may look like I live with illusions. Hope, against the odds, I guess, may always look this way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 760481, member: 18958"] Dear Deni I think our similar situations are unbearably difficult. I recognize the pattern you describe, of push/pull. Our son's love for and treatment of us is so ambivalent. On the one hand, we're responsible for their suffering, on the other, we're the only ones they can turn to. It's an impossibly impossible situation to be in. My son does similarly. Once again he's back in the rental house I own. Why? Because at the end of the day, I care, and he knows it. It's to hope for incremental change for the better, against a very poor track record, and against the odds. It's only based on love, on hope, and because there is no better option. Sometimes, this is what love looks like. i recognize that to others I may look like I live with illusions. Hope, against the odds, I guess, may always look this way. [/QUOTE]
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