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Substance Abuse
I have elected to tell my son to get treatment and be sober before we talk again.
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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 592893" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>You hit the nail on the head. Maintain a relationship while setting appropriate boundaries you can live with. One thing my husband has told me that really helping in coming to terms with our difficult child's drinking is this: there are many many people walking around who have a drinking and even a drug problem. Yet they maintain jobs and almost normal day to day activities. Most will never enter treatment and they will continue sliding along. My dad is a good example of this. He was a serious alcoholic all his life and his drinking caused chaos in our lives. He worked all his life and provided for his family. I would never want to have his existence but it was his and I could either have a relationship with him or not, he wasn't going to change either way. Your daughter seems to have accepted this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 592893, member: 59"] You hit the nail on the head. Maintain a relationship while setting appropriate boundaries you can live with. One thing my husband has told me that really helping in coming to terms with our difficult child's drinking is this: there are many many people walking around who have a drinking and even a drug problem. Yet they maintain jobs and almost normal day to day activities. Most will never enter treatment and they will continue sliding along. My dad is a good example of this. He was a serious alcoholic all his life and his drinking caused chaos in our lives. He worked all his life and provided for his family. I would never want to have his existence but it was his and I could either have a relationship with him or not, he wasn't going to change either way. Your daughter seems to have accepted this. [/QUOTE]
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