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I bought my kid a tent today, he's homeless.
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 675575" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Merry Christmas, JM.</p><p></p><p>You are doing incredibly well. Please do not judge yourself harshly, or at all. Any involvement you have with your son beyond the cursory is as if to support his choice. Which you cannot do. It would be completely sending him the wrong message, I think.</p><p></p><p>He knows how much you love him. I think what you did was loving and completely appropriate. I spent a career working in prisons. I think it is harder still for us who see and deal with the consequences of the choices are children are making.</p><p></p><p>It feels like a special kind of hypocrisy to me who can find compassion for prisoners who have done way, way worse than my son--and need to push away my own child. Indeed, even feel disgust and anger. But he is my son. It is a world of difference.</p><p></p><p>I am glad you found us. Every one of us is living with a variant of your story, your heartbreak. Posting helps a lot. Welcome.</p><p></p><p>COPA</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 675575, member: 18958"] Merry Christmas, JM. You are doing incredibly well. Please do not judge yourself harshly, or at all. Any involvement you have with your son beyond the cursory is as if to support his choice. Which you cannot do. It would be completely sending him the wrong message, I think. He knows how much you love him. I think what you did was loving and completely appropriate. I spent a career working in prisons. I think it is harder still for us who see and deal with the consequences of the choices are children are making. It feels like a special kind of hypocrisy to me who can find compassion for prisoners who have done way, way worse than my son--and need to push away my own child. Indeed, even feel disgust and anger. But he is my son. It is a world of difference. I am glad you found us. Every one of us is living with a variant of your story, your heartbreak. Posting helps a lot. Welcome. COPA [/QUOTE]
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