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Does dealing with your difficult child make YOU feel manic?!?
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<blockquote data-quote="cmfout" data-source="post: 425308"><p>You're not horrible. Not at all! I'm thankful my youngest difficult child doesn't often put me through those days, but his older brother sure did! 9 years ago this month, I tossed my boys' father out on his ear after he hospitalized my middle son while I was at work. My boy had always been a real handful and he just went into overdrive after that. We made it nearly 2 years with him beating on me, threatening me, breaking every rule I'd lay down, and being in and out of juvie so many times I lost count. I kept feeling guilty whenever I'd think of "getting rid of him" and I'd find the strength to hold on a little longer. The final straw came when at 14, he threatened to kill his younger brother and me. He grabbed a knife, cut his brother's arm, and then came at me. Thankfully a neighbor was in their yard and heard the whole thing. The police came and kid #2 was removed from my home. I've refused to allow him to come back in any way for 7 years now - he's not even welcome to call. He's 21 and hasn't seen me or either of his brothers for a third of his life - most of which has been spent locked up in one youth center or another. </p><p>I pray your situation turns out completely different than mine did. I had no support - I wish with all my heart that I had this forum back then, maybe things would have happened differently. I still struggle every day with the guilt of turning my back on my own child - until I think about what he could have done to my youngest. When I think of it that way, I have no regrets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cmfout, post: 425308"] You're not horrible. Not at all! I'm thankful my youngest difficult child doesn't often put me through those days, but his older brother sure did! 9 years ago this month, I tossed my boys' father out on his ear after he hospitalized my middle son while I was at work. My boy had always been a real handful and he just went into overdrive after that. We made it nearly 2 years with him beating on me, threatening me, breaking every rule I'd lay down, and being in and out of juvie so many times I lost count. I kept feeling guilty whenever I'd think of "getting rid of him" and I'd find the strength to hold on a little longer. The final straw came when at 14, he threatened to kill his younger brother and me. He grabbed a knife, cut his brother's arm, and then came at me. Thankfully a neighbor was in their yard and heard the whole thing. The police came and kid #2 was removed from my home. I've refused to allow him to come back in any way for 7 years now - he's not even welcome to call. He's 21 and hasn't seen me or either of his brothers for a third of his life - most of which has been spent locked up in one youth center or another. I pray your situation turns out completely different than mine did. I had no support - I wish with all my heart that I had this forum back then, maybe things would have happened differently. I still struggle every day with the guilt of turning my back on my own child - until I think about what he could have done to my youngest. When I think of it that way, I have no regrets. [/QUOTE]
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