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<blockquote data-quote="skittles" data-source="post: 757695" data-attributes="member: 2484"><p>Hello Mitch and welcome!</p><p>This community is incredible. I come here periodically over the years, i originally did frequently now whenever i feel my resolve slipping or get overwhelmed. I put my son out at 18, i know exactly how you feel. I gave him the phone number to the local youth shelter and said thats where you live now. Its such a hard thing to do and because you feel guilty i guarantee youl find other ways to ‘help’, like a phone or money or cosign an apartment etc.., Our difficult children are masters at manipulation so be careful that you don’t just fall into other patterns of enabling bad behaviour. my son is now 34, hes had Periods of homelessness couch surfing five years in prison and on again off again girlfriend in which he produced five children and my enabling over the years have now and emeshed me with his ex-girlfriend due to the kids. It seems like it is a never ending battle, The hardest part but honestly the most liberating is when you come to the conclusion that they will never be what we hope they will be. that’s when you are finally able to start to step back live your own life and let them live with the consequences of their’s. Good luck and stay strong</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skittles, post: 757695, member: 2484"] Hello Mitch and welcome! This community is incredible. I come here periodically over the years, i originally did frequently now whenever i feel my resolve slipping or get overwhelmed. I put my son out at 18, i know exactly how you feel. I gave him the phone number to the local youth shelter and said thats where you live now. Its such a hard thing to do and because you feel guilty i guarantee youl find other ways to ‘help’, like a phone or money or cosign an apartment etc.., Our difficult children are masters at manipulation so be careful that you don’t just fall into other patterns of enabling bad behaviour. my son is now 34, hes had Periods of homelessness couch surfing five years in prison and on again off again girlfriend in which he produced five children and my enabling over the years have now and emeshed me with his ex-girlfriend due to the kids. It seems like it is a never ending battle, The hardest part but honestly the most liberating is when you come to the conclusion that they will never be what we hope they will be. that’s when you are finally able to start to step back live your own life and let them live with the consequences of their’s. Good luck and stay strong [/QUOTE]
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