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<blockquote data-quote="Beta" data-source="post: 750585" data-attributes="member: 22597"><p><strong>"All of us arrive at the same place, ultimately, where we fall back upon our own resources and capacity to be self-determining. When our sons did so, their judgement was impaired and their insight into themselves was too. Our relationships with them could not prevail because of rebellion or conflict or distorted thinking or whatever."</strong></p><p>Copa, here's another one of your gems. Good insight. </p><p>As far as whether our situations would have arrived at the same place, what makes you say that? I guess in my mind, if we had known earlier, especially before the legal age, we might have been able to force him to be evaluated, get medication and therapy. Now he refuses because his brain doesn't even recognize there's a problem. </p><p></p><p>My husband did point out last night that if we had not adopted Josh, he would have spent time being exposed to his mother's Bipolar, alcohol addiction, and substance addiction; probably would have ended up in foster care and ultimately in trouble himself, so maybe we delayed and/or mitigated the outcome a little bit. I hope this is true because it does help to think we made things better, at least for his growing up years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beta, post: 750585, member: 22597"] [B]"All of us arrive at the same place, ultimately, where we fall back upon our own resources and capacity to be self-determining. When our sons did so, their judgement was impaired and their insight into themselves was too. Our relationships with them could not prevail because of rebellion or conflict or distorted thinking or whatever."[/B] Copa, here's another one of your gems. Good insight. As far as whether our situations would have arrived at the same place, what makes you say that? I guess in my mind, if we had known earlier, especially before the legal age, we might have been able to force him to be evaluated, get medication and therapy. Now he refuses because his brain doesn't even recognize there's a problem. My husband did point out last night that if we had not adopted Josh, he would have spent time being exposed to his mother's Bipolar, alcohol addiction, and substance addiction; probably would have ended up in foster care and ultimately in trouble himself, so maybe we delayed and/or mitigated the outcome a little bit. I hope this is true because it does help to think we made things better, at least for his growing up years. [/QUOTE]
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