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Contact with homeless son. Wants to visit and stay for couple of nights.
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<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 622216" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>It is endlessly interesting to me how we all seem to feel --or certainly I feel--that I have to keep my promises to difficult child, or stick to my commitments, regardless of what he does or how he shifts the sands of the situation. I see that over and over on the board too. I am not sure if I have the endless and fruitless hope that if I model honor and reliability he will learn from it (hahahahahah now I laugh myself sick), or if I can't deal with the confrontation if I go back on something when the situation changes (or even if the situation doesn't change but I think better of it) or if I just get so tired it is easier to keep my feet on the path because that is easier than rethinking...regardless...I see how this pattern leads all of us to strange, unreciprocated, one way behaviors that are frankly...odd! they are so little deserved, appreciated, or acknowledge...and so often actually do not provide any benefit...isn't it weird?</p><p></p><p>but it is good to know I am not alone in that particular version of difficult child-mom crazy.</p><p></p><p>Reading along, Lucy, and cheering for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 622216, member: 17269"] It is endlessly interesting to me how we all seem to feel --or certainly I feel--that I have to keep my promises to difficult child, or stick to my commitments, regardless of what he does or how he shifts the sands of the situation. I see that over and over on the board too. I am not sure if I have the endless and fruitless hope that if I model honor and reliability he will learn from it (hahahahahah now I laugh myself sick), or if I can't deal with the confrontation if I go back on something when the situation changes (or even if the situation doesn't change but I think better of it) or if I just get so tired it is easier to keep my feet on the path because that is easier than rethinking...regardless...I see how this pattern leads all of us to strange, unreciprocated, one way behaviors that are frankly...odd! they are so little deserved, appreciated, or acknowledge...and so often actually do not provide any benefit...isn't it weird? but it is good to know I am not alone in that particular version of difficult child-mom crazy. Reading along, Lucy, and cheering for you. [/QUOTE]
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