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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 662096" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Hi Lila,</p><p></p><p>I am right there with you. Last night, I had achieved a sense of relative peace, direction and strength. I woke this morning feeling desperate with an aching pain and fear. What can I do to make my son understand that his life is at stake if he does not take his medicine? What can I do to give him the stability to be able to take in the reality of his situation? </p><p></p><p>My answer this morning was NOTHING. There is not one thing I can do today to change things for him. The only thing within my power to do is to take care of myself today. To make myself stronger and happier so that I can go on.</p><p></p><p>Maybe after many, many days choosing for myself, my own happiness and security and strength, I will have within me the fortitude and compassion and patience to bring my son nearer to me to lend him for a time some of what I have gained, so that he can begin to do for and to choose himself.</p><p></p><p>That time is not now. For you or for me. Right now we must choose to mother ourselves.</p><p></p><p>There is nothing else that I can see, as possible, right now. I will choose to take care of myself now, and let my son sit with and take responsibility for himself. As he can.</p><p></p><p>For today, I will do that. And tomorrow I will reserve the right to decide differently.</p><p></p><p>For today, I choose me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 662096, member: 18958"] Hi Lila, I am right there with you. Last night, I had achieved a sense of relative peace, direction and strength. I woke this morning feeling desperate with an aching pain and fear. What can I do to make my son understand that his life is at stake if he does not take his medicine? What can I do to give him the stability to be able to take in the reality of his situation? My answer this morning was NOTHING. There is not one thing I can do today to change things for him. The only thing within my power to do is to take care of myself today. To make myself stronger and happier so that I can go on. Maybe after many, many days choosing for myself, my own happiness and security and strength, I will have within me the fortitude and compassion and patience to bring my son nearer to me to lend him for a time some of what I have gained, so that he can begin to do for and to choose himself. That time is not now. For you or for me. Right now we must choose to mother ourselves. There is nothing else that I can see, as possible, right now. I will choose to take care of myself now, and let my son sit with and take responsibility for himself. As he can. For today, I will do that. And tomorrow I will reserve the right to decide differently. For today, I choose me. [/QUOTE]
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