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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 701952" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>Jodie, they continue to ask, guilt and manipulate until they get their way, or finally stop because it is a dead end. Your email to him was great, stick to your guns!</p><p></p><p>I don't know if you remember Erma Bombeck, but here is her take on guilt....."guilt is the gift that keeps on giving." </p><p></p><p>Don't allow yourself to feel guilty, when those thoughts come......think about 20 year old boys in a war zone scared out of their minds and risking their lives for their country, quite the disparity between that young man and a 48 year old addict who cries to his Mom and tries to guilt her into giving him what he wants when HE has created the scenario he presently lives in. Put it in a different perspective because the perspective of guilt is not rational, you've done enough. It's a pattern of behavior you're used to and when you break the pattern it doesn't feel good, but breaking the pattern is absolutely necessary.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 701952, member: 13542"] Jodie, they continue to ask, guilt and manipulate until they get their way, or finally stop because it is a dead end. Your email to him was great, stick to your guns! I don't know if you remember Erma Bombeck, but here is her take on guilt....."guilt is the gift that keeps on giving." Don't allow yourself to feel guilty, when those thoughts come......think about 20 year old boys in a war zone scared out of their minds and risking their lives for their country, quite the disparity between that young man and a 48 year old addict who cries to his Mom and tries to guilt her into giving him what he wants when HE has created the scenario he presently lives in. Put it in a different perspective because the perspective of guilt is not rational, you've done enough. It's a pattern of behavior you're used to and when you break the pattern it doesn't feel good, but breaking the pattern is absolutely necessary. [/QUOTE]
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