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Arrested and Suspended, All in One Day. Smh...
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<blockquote data-quote="Sierra" data-source="post: 587290" data-attributes="member: 16131"><p>Thanks everyone, for your replies. I have drawn on my own experiences with substance abuse in this whole ordeal. </p><p>My mother was a SEVERE drug addict (cocaine and heroin) and a severe alcoholic for many years (she quit when I was about 11). She went so far as to lose her RN license in both VT and NH because she was stealing medications from the patients.</p><p>My father is an un-medicated bipolar man with rage issues. He grows his own marijuana, and drinks so severely he blacks out long before he passes out. He is also incredibly incredibly abusive.</p><p>I ran away from my father at 13 and my mother at 14. I asked the VT foster system to take me, but they said they couldn't help. So I asked my grandmother to get guardianship of me. She did. At 17 I met the man who would become my first husband and father of my two bio kids. He was a pothead and alcoholic, and though I didn't know it at the time, had a long and severe history with drugs. (cocaine to LCD to crack and everything in between). He turned abusive. I chose to be homeless rather than allow my children to continue to see their mother raped and beaten by their father.</p><p></p><p>Throughout all of this INSANITY, one would think I would turn to drinking or drugs to "cope". Wouldn't it be easier to faze out? Just feel nothing? HELL YEA! But the fact of the matter is: The point of life is to be able to find a way to cope with lifes hardships using only YOURSELF. Only your mind, your emotion, your own strength and the strength of the loved ones you surround yourself with.</p><p> </p><p>This is the lesson I have learned growing up as the child/wife of SERIOUS drug addicts who will NEVER stop using. This is the lesson I will pass on to our children. I will fight like a mama bear to get Blake out of the trouble he has put himself into. However, I will also never let him forget where his actions brought him and how his selfishness affected our family. Some may find me harsh. I find myself to be realistic. Blake is at a crossroads; one way lies the life his mother chose, the other way lies the life he says he wants. We can show him the roads, and explain what lies over the horizon of each, but only HE can decide the road to follow, and only he can make the right choices.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sierra, post: 587290, member: 16131"] Thanks everyone, for your replies. I have drawn on my own experiences with substance abuse in this whole ordeal. My mother was a SEVERE drug addict (cocaine and heroin) and a severe alcoholic for many years (she quit when I was about 11). She went so far as to lose her RN license in both VT and NH because she was stealing medications from the patients. My father is an un-medicated bipolar man with rage issues. He grows his own marijuana, and drinks so severely he blacks out long before he passes out. He is also incredibly incredibly abusive. I ran away from my father at 13 and my mother at 14. I asked the VT foster system to take me, but they said they couldn't help. So I asked my grandmother to get guardianship of me. She did. At 17 I met the man who would become my first husband and father of my two bio kids. He was a pothead and alcoholic, and though I didn't know it at the time, had a long and severe history with drugs. (cocaine to LCD to crack and everything in between). He turned abusive. I chose to be homeless rather than allow my children to continue to see their mother raped and beaten by their father. Throughout all of this INSANITY, one would think I would turn to drinking or drugs to "cope". Wouldn't it be easier to faze out? Just feel nothing? HELL YEA! But the fact of the matter is: The point of life is to be able to find a way to cope with lifes hardships using only YOURSELF. Only your mind, your emotion, your own strength and the strength of the loved ones you surround yourself with. This is the lesson I have learned growing up as the child/wife of SERIOUS drug addicts who will NEVER stop using. This is the lesson I will pass on to our children. I will fight like a mama bear to get Blake out of the trouble he has put himself into. However, I will also never let him forget where his actions brought him and how his selfishness affected our family. Some may find me harsh. I find myself to be realistic. Blake is at a crossroads; one way lies the life his mother chose, the other way lies the life he says he wants. We can show him the roads, and explain what lies over the horizon of each, but only HE can decide the road to follow, and only he can make the right choices. [/QUOTE]
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