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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 41589" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Oh, yeah. As a last word, when my sixteen year old daughter took drugs and slammed her head against the wall and got arrested and told me how much she hated me, then sank to the floor sobbing, I would hug her right away and tell her I still loved her; no matter what I still loved her. I have no idea if it helped her, but this difficult child turned her life around two years later. She is the best daughter a mom could ask for right now. I never withheld those hugs, and I was NOT in the mood to give them to her after she told me how much she hated me and wished I hadn't adopted her and that nobody loved her, blah, blah, blah--it was the drugs talking. It did her no harm at all to be hugged when, in my opinion, I wanted to do it the least and she needed it the most. Since age nineteen, this child has never been in trouble, not one day. She is going to celebrate her 23rd birthday soon. I thought she'd be in jail or dead by now. I'm not saying the hugs did it, but I think the unconditional acceptance/love did help her. She talks about that a lot. And as far as respect goes--she is NEVER disrespectful to me now. EVER. Anyways, take what you want from it and toss out the rest :smile:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 41589, member: 1550"] Oh, yeah. As a last word, when my sixteen year old daughter took drugs and slammed her head against the wall and got arrested and told me how much she hated me, then sank to the floor sobbing, I would hug her right away and tell her I still loved her; no matter what I still loved her. I have no idea if it helped her, but this difficult child turned her life around two years later. She is the best daughter a mom could ask for right now. I never withheld those hugs, and I was NOT in the mood to give them to her after she told me how much she hated me and wished I hadn't adopted her and that nobody loved her, blah, blah, blah--it was the drugs talking. It did her no harm at all to be hugged when, in my opinion, I wanted to do it the least and she needed it the most. Since age nineteen, this child has never been in trouble, not one day. She is going to celebrate her 23rd birthday soon. I thought she'd be in jail or dead by now. I'm not saying the hugs did it, but I think the unconditional acceptance/love did help her. She talks about that a lot. And as far as respect goes--she is NEVER disrespectful to me now. EVER. Anyways, take what you want from it and toss out the rest [img]:smile:[/img] [/QUOTE]
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