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<blockquote data-quote="scent of cedar" data-source="post: 600518" data-attributes="member: 1721"><p>Kathy, I'm so sorry this is happening to you, and to your daughter.</p><p></p><p>It was interesting that, last Fall, when we still believed our daughter was fine but were questioning some of the things that happened or that she told us to explain missing money and so on...difficult child would behave so differently with her father than she did, with me. For instance, husband had given her money to fix something on her car. Somehow, the money was lost and in addition, a number of bills had not been paid. Between ourselves, husband and I questioned what might really be going on. There were so many "off" signals. Taken alone, those signals were acceptable things that could happen to anyone. Add them up though, and it looked like there might be trouble. At that time, we just chose to believe in difficult child. But during one episode, husband came back and said that difficult child had been crying, had been telling husband how ashamed she was for all the bad things she had done, etc.</p><p></p><p>And so, not only did husband pay for the car repair he had already given difficult child money for once, but he left her a signed, blank check. (We were soon to go South for the winter. The check was for an emergency, should one come up where she needed money immediately.)</p><p></p><p>You all know how everything resolved.</p><p></p><p>Even I would never, in a million years, have given difficult child a blank check. </p><p></p><p>The check went missing some months into the badness. difficult child gave us an explanation, and told us to cancel the check. We did.</p><p></p><p>Barbara</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scent of cedar, post: 600518, member: 1721"] Kathy, I'm so sorry this is happening to you, and to your daughter. It was interesting that, last Fall, when we still believed our daughter was fine but were questioning some of the things that happened or that she told us to explain missing money and so on...difficult child would behave so differently with her father than she did, with me. For instance, husband had given her money to fix something on her car. Somehow, the money was lost and in addition, a number of bills had not been paid. Between ourselves, husband and I questioned what might really be going on. There were so many "off" signals. Taken alone, those signals were acceptable things that could happen to anyone. Add them up though, and it looked like there might be trouble. At that time, we just chose to believe in difficult child. But during one episode, husband came back and said that difficult child had been crying, had been telling husband how ashamed she was for all the bad things she had done, etc. And so, not only did husband pay for the car repair he had already given difficult child money for once, but he left her a signed, blank check. (We were soon to go South for the winter. The check was for an emergency, should one come up where she needed money immediately.) You all know how everything resolved. Even I would never, in a million years, have given difficult child a blank check. The check went missing some months into the badness. difficult child gave us an explanation, and told us to cancel the check. We did. Barbara [/QUOTE]
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