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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 494533" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>You are doing all the right things. You are making him responsible for his own actions and seem to have mastered the art of loving detachment, which I am still trying to do. I'm glad he has agreed to go to celebrate recovery meetings in college. It is so hard for our young people to stay away from alcohol in college, it's almost a recipe for disaster. My daughter lasted in college six weeks before she was arrested for drinking and smoking pot. We made her finish out the semester because we had paid for it and quite frankly we needed the break, but she ended up getting suspended at the end of the semester and started down a road of self destruction which ended in her finally going to a substance abuse treatment center and untimately living in a sober house for eight months. She is nowliving on her own, has a job and attends AA meetings daily. It is a difficult life for young people who all they see is other young people drinking and having fun around them.</p><p></p><p>I hope your difficult child can turn his life around, but in the meantime stay strong and firm in whatyou will and will not accept. You said it best, we want so much more for them than they want for themselves. Hopefully he will get into recovery and start wanting those things for himself. I have told my daughter many times that I cannot do it for her, she has to do it for herself.</p><p></p><p>Nancy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 494533, member: 59"] You are doing all the right things. You are making him responsible for his own actions and seem to have mastered the art of loving detachment, which I am still trying to do. I'm glad he has agreed to go to celebrate recovery meetings in college. It is so hard for our young people to stay away from alcohol in college, it's almost a recipe for disaster. My daughter lasted in college six weeks before she was arrested for drinking and smoking pot. We made her finish out the semester because we had paid for it and quite frankly we needed the break, but she ended up getting suspended at the end of the semester and started down a road of self destruction which ended in her finally going to a substance abuse treatment center and untimately living in a sober house for eight months. She is nowliving on her own, has a job and attends AA meetings daily. It is a difficult life for young people who all they see is other young people drinking and having fun around them. I hope your difficult child can turn his life around, but in the meantime stay strong and firm in whatyou will and will not accept. You said it best, we want so much more for them than they want for themselves. Hopefully he will get into recovery and start wanting those things for himself. I have told my daughter many times that I cannot do it for her, she has to do it for herself. Nancy [/QUOTE]
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