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difficult child has a hangover-uh oh, update mystery!
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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 10689" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p>Somebody has a line in thier post signature...something like, "He's like a wrecking ball no longer attached to the chain". I feel like that's what I'm witnessing with my difficult child. </p><p></p><p>It feels like nothing I've said these past few weeks, months, and years, has sunken into her little brain. She settles down just enough for me to catch my breath, barely sometimes, and then she picks up where she left off.</p><p></p><p>The other day a friend of ours excitedly asked me, "So are you already making plans for [difficult child's] room?" in reference to the time following difficult child's *possible* HS graduation. It took me a moment to understand what she was talking about because within the past few months I've resigned myself to the fact that difficult child is likely not going anywhere. She's likely going to stick close to home. She'll only be 17 and she's just not prepared to get 'out there'. She forgets to take her medications, she impulsive to the max, she'd wind up pregnant, and probably homeless. No lie - that's how I feel, that's what I see for her if she leaves the nest too soon. Is it egotistical of me to feel that she'd fail so miserably without being near me? Without me around to help her pick herself up when she falls every other month? </p><p></p><p>I don't wanna go home!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 10689, member: 2211"] Somebody has a line in thier post signature...something like, "He's like a wrecking ball no longer attached to the chain". I feel like that's what I'm witnessing with my difficult child. It feels like nothing I've said these past few weeks, months, and years, has sunken into her little brain. She settles down just enough for me to catch my breath, barely sometimes, and then she picks up where she left off. The other day a friend of ours excitedly asked me, "So are you already making plans for [difficult child's] room?" in reference to the time following difficult child's *possible* HS graduation. It took me a moment to understand what she was talking about because within the past few months I've resigned myself to the fact that difficult child is likely not going anywhere. She's likely going to stick close to home. She'll only be 17 and she's just not prepared to get 'out there'. She forgets to take her medications, she impulsive to the max, she'd wind up pregnant, and probably homeless. No lie - that's how I feel, that's what I see for her if she leaves the nest too soon. Is it egotistical of me to feel that she'd fail so miserably without being near me? Without me around to help her pick herself up when she falls every other month? I don't wanna go home! [/QUOTE]
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