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Anyone ever notice we are falling apart???
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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 92395" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Janet,</p><p></p><p>Picking up pieces right next to you. :wink: (Though I think I've missed a few.)</p><p></p><p>While I like GG's advice on being proactive and taking care of ourselves, it seems to me (and this may be a cop out on my part) that it gets harder and harder to do with the continuous pressures a difficult child puts on us. It's like Chinese water torture - there's never a break, never a let up. Seems like, around here anyway, the constant cr*p has a cumulative effect. thank you hasn't even hit rock bottom yet and I'm counting down the days to when I can just wash my hands and be *done* - move, leave no forwarding address, and get an unlisted phone. Which of course provokes guilt for feeling that way on my part and a lot of frustration on husband's part because for some reason he's decided at this late date we need to hang on to the bitter end and beyond.</p><p></p><p>And I just have to laugh at rehab folks and my spine doctor who are so into how one's mindset has so much to do with- recovery. I'm sunk.</p><p></p><p>It's a narrow and pessimistic perspective right now, but I just don't see it ever ending. We're always going to get the doggone calls, we're always going to be informed of the latest boneheaded move our kid made, and there's always going to be someone expecting us to clean up the mess. How is it possible to maintain a positive or healthy outlook when it's a variation of the same darn thing over and over again, stupidity and faulty reasoning and "it's not my fault" and excuses and general garbage again and again and again. </p><p></p><p>Even mountains crumble under constant pressure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 92395, member: 8"] Janet, Picking up pieces right next to you. [img]:wink:[/img] (Though I think I've missed a few.) While I like GG's advice on being proactive and taking care of ourselves, it seems to me (and this may be a cop out on my part) that it gets harder and harder to do with the continuous pressures a difficult child puts on us. It's like Chinese water torture - there's never a break, never a let up. Seems like, around here anyway, the constant cr*p has a cumulative effect. thank you hasn't even hit rock bottom yet and I'm counting down the days to when I can just wash my hands and be *done* - move, leave no forwarding address, and get an unlisted phone. Which of course provokes guilt for feeling that way on my part and a lot of frustration on husband's part because for some reason he's decided at this late date we need to hang on to the bitter end and beyond. And I just have to laugh at rehab folks and my spine doctor who are so into how one's mindset has so much to do with- recovery. I'm sunk. It's a narrow and pessimistic perspective right now, but I just don't see it ever ending. We're always going to get the doggone calls, we're always going to be informed of the latest boneheaded move our kid made, and there's always going to be someone expecting us to clean up the mess. How is it possible to maintain a positive or healthy outlook when it's a variation of the same darn thing over and over again, stupidity and faulty reasoning and "it's not my fault" and excuses and general garbage again and again and again. Even mountains crumble under constant pressure. [/QUOTE]
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