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<blockquote data-quote="SeekingStrength" data-source="post: 625273" data-attributes="member: 17635"><p>What helps me these days is knowing how badly gfg32 <strong>wants</strong> husband and me to feel guilty. For years, it worked. We did not feel the amount of guilt about as many things as he wanted, but more along the lines of <em>What should we have done? What could we have done to turn things around for him? He is making one bad choice after another and he must not feel loved enough to live right....</em></p><p><em></em></p><p>But, the last round of nonsense with gfg32 made it easy for husband and me to step out of the guilt because some of things gfg32 was throwing at us were ridiculous and he lost a LOT of credibility. A couple that he mentioned repeatedly:</p><p></p><p>*for every minute he played video games, he had to have read the same # of minutes first (personally, I am very proud of that rule, lol)</p><p>*he bought an old, used Volvo (I had insisted it be a Volvo because I read they were so safe) <strong><em>so he never learned how to date (????)</em></strong></p><p><strong><em></em></strong></p><p>There were several more examples of our <em>horrible, horrible <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":frown:" title="frown :frown:" data-shortname=":frown:" /> </em> parenting, but these two just popped to the top of my head. He could also be very vague but with drama....<em>Maybe I don't have physical scars, but the scars I carry are just as painful </em>(paraphrased, but you get the idea)....</p><p></p><p>.....and he.is.32. (33 later this month)</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sigh,</p><p>SS</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SeekingStrength, post: 625273, member: 17635"] What helps me these days is knowing how badly gfg32 [B]wants[/B] husband and me to feel guilty. For years, it worked. We did not feel the amount of guilt about as many things as he wanted, but more along the lines of [I]What should we have done? What could we have done to turn things around for him? He is making one bad choice after another and he must not feel loved enough to live right.... [/I] But, the last round of nonsense with gfg32 made it easy for husband and me to step out of the guilt because some of things gfg32 was throwing at us were ridiculous and he lost a LOT of credibility. A couple that he mentioned repeatedly: *for every minute he played video games, he had to have read the same # of minutes first (personally, I am very proud of that rule, lol) *he bought an old, used Volvo (I had insisted it be a Volvo because I read they were so safe) [B][I]so he never learned how to date (????) [/I][/B] There were several more examples of our [I]horrible, horrible :frown: [/I] parenting, but these two just popped to the top of my head. He could also be very vague but with drama....[I]Maybe I don't have physical scars, but the scars I carry are just as painful [/I](paraphrased, but you get the idea).... .....and he.is.32. (33 later this month) Sigh, SS [/QUOTE]
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