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Does anyone remember "Goodnight, Moon"?
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<blockquote data-quote="everywoman" data-source="post: 36449" data-attributes="member: 1436"><p>I haven't posted a lot lately. I have had a horrible time of late. Nothing seems to go right for my children---even the easy child's. difficult child is just so lost that it seems hopeless---but everyday I get up, and I smile, and I find some reason, some glint of hope from somewhere deep within that tells me that one day he will find his way. My oldest is struggling with a young wife who believes that the "grass will be greener..." and never in my life have I been as proud of him as I am right now---he is handling his "stuff." He wants to save his marriage. He said that if it all ends he wants to make sure that he has not regrets and won't ever have to look at his son and say I didn't try. He has said such profound, mature, wise things that I find myself shaking my head and pondering how I could have raised him and his brother and have them turn out so very differently. PCdaughter is a typical teen. She is not perfect (always picks the wrong guy) and back talks every now and then, but she is a "good" girl and I don't worry about her the way I do about difficult child. Sometimes I question what I could have done...but honestly, I don't know. My bio-dad was a difficult child. My bio-mom is a difficult child. Their brothers and sisters are all successful, functioning adults...my grandparents did the best they could with my dad. He made his own choices. They still loved him until the end. They didn't always agree with him. I'm sure they didn't always like him. But...they loved him just like I love difficult child. Right now I am disappointed, hurt, angry, betrayed...but I love the kid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="everywoman, post: 36449, member: 1436"] I haven't posted a lot lately. I have had a horrible time of late. Nothing seems to go right for my children---even the easy child's. difficult child is just so lost that it seems hopeless---but everyday I get up, and I smile, and I find some reason, some glint of hope from somewhere deep within that tells me that one day he will find his way. My oldest is struggling with a young wife who believes that the "grass will be greener..." and never in my life have I been as proud of him as I am right now---he is handling his "stuff." He wants to save his marriage. He said that if it all ends he wants to make sure that he has not regrets and won't ever have to look at his son and say I didn't try. He has said such profound, mature, wise things that I find myself shaking my head and pondering how I could have raised him and his brother and have them turn out so very differently. PCdaughter is a typical teen. She is not perfect (always picks the wrong guy) and back talks every now and then, but she is a "good" girl and I don't worry about her the way I do about difficult child. Sometimes I question what I could have done...but honestly, I don't know. My bio-dad was a difficult child. My bio-mom is a difficult child. Their brothers and sisters are all successful, functioning adults...my grandparents did the best they could with my dad. He made his own choices. They still loved him until the end. They didn't always agree with him. I'm sure they didn't always like him. But...they loved him just like I love difficult child. Right now I am disappointed, hurt, angry, betrayed...but I love the kid. [/QUOTE]
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