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toughlovin
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Hi all,
I have been mostly posting over in the SA section but recently have been catching up here. My difficult child is currently homeless and travelling around CA. He was with a friend which made me feel better that he was not alone. I did get him a backpack last week and felt good about doing that, and good that he had the wherewithal to figure out how to virtually meet me at a store on his end so we could do the transaction. We have been in sporadic contact via facebook and that contact between us has been really postive. So yesterday we communicate and I found out the friend left him stranded. It is so hard not to get caught up in his day to day issues. I felt so angry at the friend on his behalf, and of course we all know that I do not know the whole story!! I have a friend out there who is willing to take him to dinner aand get him a book to read (no more than that, nor do I want her to do any more than that. I certainly dont want my friends to trust him if I dont!!). I sent him that message which I dont think he got.
So in my gut I know he is ok. He is surviving by panhandling or whatever he is doing. Not a life I know anything about nor do I want to. And yet when things feel a little in limbo it is very hard for me not to get emotionally caught up in it and want to just wait by computer to get a message. And yet I cant do that, I need to keep going on with my life.
I am forccing myself to do that but sometimes it is hard... and what better place to express that than here to all of you who know how I feel. I am hoping he will get my message, see my friend (who can lay her eyes on him for me), and then meet up with his friend or better yet get himself to a place where he wants help.
TL
I have been mostly posting over in the SA section but recently have been catching up here. My difficult child is currently homeless and travelling around CA. He was with a friend which made me feel better that he was not alone. I did get him a backpack last week and felt good about doing that, and good that he had the wherewithal to figure out how to virtually meet me at a store on his end so we could do the transaction. We have been in sporadic contact via facebook and that contact between us has been really postive. So yesterday we communicate and I found out the friend left him stranded. It is so hard not to get caught up in his day to day issues. I felt so angry at the friend on his behalf, and of course we all know that I do not know the whole story!! I have a friend out there who is willing to take him to dinner aand get him a book to read (no more than that, nor do I want her to do any more than that. I certainly dont want my friends to trust him if I dont!!). I sent him that message which I dont think he got.
So in my gut I know he is ok. He is surviving by panhandling or whatever he is doing. Not a life I know anything about nor do I want to. And yet when things feel a little in limbo it is very hard for me not to get emotionally caught up in it and want to just wait by computer to get a message. And yet I cant do that, I need to keep going on with my life.
I am forccing myself to do that but sometimes it is hard... and what better place to express that than here to all of you who know how I feel. I am hoping he will get my message, see my friend (who can lay her eyes on him for me), and then meet up with his friend or better yet get himself to a place where he wants help.
TL