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<blockquote data-quote="Mirabelle" data-source="post: 763700" data-attributes="member: 28712"><p>Newstart and Aching Heart, thank you for your responses. I hear you both saying that you had to cut your children off ultimately to save your own life. I think we are at that same point. Aching Heart, I am so sorry that you remain estranged from your daughter, but I am glad that you have taken steps to protect yourself and find some joy in life. My son has been so cruel to his father, so manipulative, so heartless, that I would be quite satisfied if it were a long time before I saw him again.</p><p></p><p>We have an excellent therapist and one of his suggestions has been to go no contact. He has extensive experience working specifically with these type of situations. He said, with true empathy and concern I might add, that this might be the best our son ever gets, that he might have hit his ceiling in terms of mental functioning due to the mental illness and drug addiction he refuses treatment for. Many years ago our therapist had an extreme situation where a husband and wife actually had to move to another state, just disappear in the night, because their son would not accept no contact and kept turning up at their house, their workplaces, the grocery store etc. A nightmare. To be stalked and terrorized by your own kid. We could be in for anything, but we feel that we have to try this.</p><p></p><p>Thank you both so much for your kind words and I wish you much peace and love.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mirabelle, post: 763700, member: 28712"] Newstart and Aching Heart, thank you for your responses. I hear you both saying that you had to cut your children off ultimately to save your own life. I think we are at that same point. Aching Heart, I am so sorry that you remain estranged from your daughter, but I am glad that you have taken steps to protect yourself and find some joy in life. My son has been so cruel to his father, so manipulative, so heartless, that I would be quite satisfied if it were a long time before I saw him again. We have an excellent therapist and one of his suggestions has been to go no contact. He has extensive experience working specifically with these type of situations. He said, with true empathy and concern I might add, that this might be the best our son ever gets, that he might have hit his ceiling in terms of mental functioning due to the mental illness and drug addiction he refuses treatment for. Many years ago our therapist had an extreme situation where a husband and wife actually had to move to another state, just disappear in the night, because their son would not accept no contact and kept turning up at their house, their workplaces, the grocery store etc. A nightmare. To be stalked and terrorized by your own kid. We could be in for anything, but we feel that we have to try this. Thank you both so much for your kind words and I wish you much peace and love. [/QUOTE]
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