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<blockquote data-quote="Elsi" data-source="post: 742727" data-attributes="member: 23349"><p>Thank you all. It helps to know I'm not alone in all this.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I do pray, in my own way. I'm just not always sure who or what I am praying to anymore, or if I have any expectation of results. I guess it's more just for me, without any expectation. But I do pray someone is watching over both of them.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So far, he has not been receptive to this. He gets angry, because he is not "one of <em>those</em> people." Those places are for people who are too dumb, too weak, etc. But it may be that he is getting closer to being ready. I will keep them in my back pocket. Perhaps this winter reality will set in. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I know. And yet...some of you have. Some of you have been able to get your children into programs, and seen success. I hear the pain and frustration in the posts as people watch their children go through rehab, IOP, sober living, etc. and I just keep thinking <em>I can't even see mine getting that far.</em> I long for the day when they will at least connect to a program and try, even if it doesn't take on the first time. And I wish they were still young enough that I had some kind of power or control to make them go somewhere and get help. I'm sitting on the sidelines watching them slowly dying. And as much as I know that I have no power here, it still feels wrong to do nothing when I see them like this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Elsi, post: 742727, member: 23349"] Thank you all. It helps to know I'm not alone in all this. I do pray, in my own way. I'm just not always sure who or what I am praying to anymore, or if I have any expectation of results. I guess it's more just for me, without any expectation. But I do pray someone is watching over both of them. So far, he has not been receptive to this. He gets angry, because he is not "one of [I]those[/I] people." Those places are for people who are too dumb, too weak, etc. But it may be that he is getting closer to being ready. I will keep them in my back pocket. Perhaps this winter reality will set in. I know. And yet...some of you have. Some of you have been able to get your children into programs, and seen success. I hear the pain and frustration in the posts as people watch their children go through rehab, IOP, sober living, etc. and I just keep thinking [I]I can't even see mine getting that far.[/I] I long for the day when they will at least connect to a program and try, even if it doesn't take on the first time. And I wish they were still young enough that I had some kind of power or control to make them go somewhere and get help. I'm sitting on the sidelines watching them slowly dying. And as much as I know that I have no power here, it still feels wrong to do nothing when I see them like this. [/QUOTE]
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