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Horrible visit with difficult child on Sunday...do we go back?
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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 345758" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>KjsMama- first off, a gentle hug for your hurting heart. I'm so sorry you're going thru this.</p><p></p><p>My take on visits has always been that I need to do what *I* need to do. And most of the time, what I needed to do was show up. What difficult child did with it was on him. If he was nasty and vile, I would calmly tell him I love him and then leave. Of course, we were never talking a short commute, LOL. An hour or more each way. Seems like a waste of time but... again, I needed to see my kid, to tell him I love him, to let him know that I would keep coming back no matter what. That was important in my mind.</p><p></p><p>There absolutely were times when I didn't visit, when I needed to take a break and catch my breath. More often, relatively speaking, when he was older and I was *really* tired of being treated like lint. If you don't go then you need to give yourself a pass on it, don't feel guilty. It is perfectly okay to not go.</p><p></p><p>I guess what I would advise you is to follow your heart.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 345758, member: 8"] KjsMama- first off, a gentle hug for your hurting heart. I'm so sorry you're going thru this. My take on visits has always been that I need to do what *I* need to do. And most of the time, what I needed to do was show up. What difficult child did with it was on him. If he was nasty and vile, I would calmly tell him I love him and then leave. Of course, we were never talking a short commute, LOL. An hour or more each way. Seems like a waste of time but... again, I needed to see my kid, to tell him I love him, to let him know that I would keep coming back no matter what. That was important in my mind. There absolutely were times when I didn't visit, when I needed to take a break and catch my breath. More often, relatively speaking, when he was older and I was *really* tired of being treated like lint. If you don't go then you need to give yourself a pass on it, don't feel guilty. It is perfectly okay to not go. I guess what I would advise you is to follow your heart. [/QUOTE]
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