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<blockquote data-quote="AHF" data-source="post: 407776" data-attributes="member: 11180"><p>I feel I've been through that "Don't call me next time" effort so very many times. And when the difficult child is feeling comfortable, feeling the next 24 hours are taken care of, the response is "Fine, I won't call you, I don't like you anyway." And then he's suddenly out of options and weeping on the phone and guilt-tripping me and promising the moon. And when you're the loving parent, the last stop, it's so hard not to re-open the door to communication on the strength of a promise. I hope you can hold firm, let the chips fall where they may. Sometimes I think we have to remind ourselves that our kids will die one day--all of us will die one day--so that we can't protect them from that eventuality; we can only act in such a way that there's a better chance they'll actually live a good life before that happens.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AHF, post: 407776, member: 11180"] I feel I've been through that "Don't call me next time" effort so very many times. And when the difficult child is feeling comfortable, feeling the next 24 hours are taken care of, the response is "Fine, I won't call you, I don't like you anyway." And then he's suddenly out of options and weeping on the phone and guilt-tripping me and promising the moon. And when you're the loving parent, the last stop, it's so hard not to re-open the door to communication on the strength of a promise. I hope you can hold firm, let the chips fall where they may. Sometimes I think we have to remind ourselves that our kids will die one day--all of us will die one day--so that we can't protect them from that eventuality; we can only act in such a way that there's a better chance they'll actually live a good life before that happens. [/QUOTE]
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