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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 648741" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>first, I'm sorry about your son's choices and the pain you endure because of them. I am divorced from my difficult child's father, too, and I have had to learn to sit by and do nothing while he continued to enable him again and again and again...after I had started learning how to stop.</p><p></p><p>It's really hard to sit by once again and watch this type of contribution to the ongoing destruction.</p><p></p><p>But, think about this: Your ex has to be sick and tired enough to want to stop enabling his son---who I am sure he loves very much, just like you do.</p><p></p><p>By doing the same thing over and over and over and getting the same result, he will grow sick and tired of it all...in time.</p><p></p><p>That's his time, not your time.</p><p></p><p>I had to learn to respect that, just like I had to learn to respect that my difficult child would get it in his time, not my time, and sit back and let it happen.</p><p></p><p>All of this is a huge ongoing lesson in letting go of all people places and things. </p><p></p><p>Warm hugs to you today. Just let it be. Let your Higher Power have it all. You and I can't do a single thing to control other people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 648741, member: 17542"] first, I'm sorry about your son's choices and the pain you endure because of them. I am divorced from my difficult child's father, too, and I have had to learn to sit by and do nothing while he continued to enable him again and again and again...after I had started learning how to stop. It's really hard to sit by once again and watch this type of contribution to the ongoing destruction. But, think about this: Your ex has to be sick and tired enough to want to stop enabling his son---who I am sure he loves very much, just like you do. By doing the same thing over and over and over and getting the same result, he will grow sick and tired of it all...in time. That's his time, not your time. I had to learn to respect that, just like I had to learn to respect that my difficult child would get it in his time, not my time, and sit back and let it happen. All of this is a huge ongoing lesson in letting go of all people places and things. Warm hugs to you today. Just let it be. Let your Higher Power have it all. You and I can't do a single thing to control other people. [/QUOTE]
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