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<blockquote data-quote="jetsam" data-source="post: 701438" data-attributes="member: 20689"><p>amann, hello, sorry you are going through this heartache.! I can relate. Im a grandma of a 8yo little girl who also lives out of state. Her mother (my sons ex) has a drug use problem.In the past she would ask for help with money using my granddaughter as a pawn.. you know the "there gonna turn off the heat and your granddaughter will be cold, or the we have no food and i got laid off...on and on always a new problem.. well I found out that the money was going for other things than what was intended for (no surprise there.) so i started only sending items instead of money. i would buy birthday gifts, school clothes, christmas gifts. never send a receipt and remove tags (so she couldn't take it back to the store for money) that worked for awhile then she started to press for money again. I had to tell her no. she said i didn't care about my grandchild...blah blah etc... It was so hard for me but i told her that i was sorry she felt that way but i felt i was doing what i needs to . so i don't hear anything from her anymore. I don't know where they are living either at present so I have been sending things to a friend who sees them from time to time. Its hard and i would love it to be different, but for now it is what it is. Hang in there! do things for yourself and look for ways to distract yourself when you find yourself slipping down that slope of sadness . keeping busy always helps me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jetsam, post: 701438, member: 20689"] amann, hello, sorry you are going through this heartache.! I can relate. Im a grandma of a 8yo little girl who also lives out of state. Her mother (my sons ex) has a drug use problem.In the past she would ask for help with money using my granddaughter as a pawn.. you know the "there gonna turn off the heat and your granddaughter will be cold, or the we have no food and i got laid off...on and on always a new problem.. well I found out that the money was going for other things than what was intended for (no surprise there.) so i started only sending items instead of money. i would buy birthday gifts, school clothes, christmas gifts. never send a receipt and remove tags (so she couldn't take it back to the store for money) that worked for awhile then she started to press for money again. I had to tell her no. she said i didn't care about my grandchild...blah blah etc... It was so hard for me but i told her that i was sorry she felt that way but i felt i was doing what i needs to . so i don't hear anything from her anymore. I don't know where they are living either at present so I have been sending things to a friend who sees them from time to time. Its hard and i would love it to be different, but for now it is what it is. Hang in there! do things for yourself and look for ways to distract yourself when you find yourself slipping down that slope of sadness . keeping busy always helps me. [/QUOTE]
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