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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 610485" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>Josie I am wracking my brain trying to figure out who you are (you don't need to reveal that). I agree that rehab is not appropriate right now. I often wonder if we jumped into that too soon but there really wasn't anything else we could do to get her away from that element. She tells me to this day that she was not an addict, just wanted to be free and wild and was able to forget her problems when she was high. To see her now I am amazed at her transformation. She is living with her boyfriend who has a 5 year old daughter he has custody of and my difficult child is so wonderful with her. She tells me how she wants to keep her away from bad kids (they live in an area of town that is very poor and has a lot of problems). She has started the proces of getting two of her tattoos removed because she now realizes they have restricted her employment. She is cooking dinners and cleaning and goes to work every day at 6:15 a.m. When she was 18 and living in the basement of a heroin addict's house I was sure she would die. If my difficult child can turn it around yours can too. </p><p></p><p>The fact that your difficult child is doing well in school is a huge plus factor. Getting her into counseling is probably the best thing you can do right now. Hopefully her best friend will stick with her. I know all about the druggie friends they find when they want. Ask my difficult child now and she will tell you how they are all losers, but at the time they were her new bffs.</p><p></p><p>I agree it's risky to allow her to go off to college. That was my difficult child's downfall for sure. And yet I also know she will give up her scholarship opportunities, it's a tough call. For my difficult child she had no scholarship and we just wasted a semester of tuition.</p><p></p><p>Keep posting, we have all been there and we care.</p><p></p><p>P.S. If you've been on this site for a long time then you know the struggles we've had with our difficult child in terms of her adoption and her treatment of us. She has never been so loving to us as she has the past year. She was just over yesterday and hugged me and told me she loved me. She is always telling us how she doesn't know what she would have done without us and how grateful she is for everythign we have done for her. We have wonderful conversations now and she never asks for anything and is very grateful for any help we give her.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 610485, member: 59"] Josie I am wracking my brain trying to figure out who you are (you don't need to reveal that). I agree that rehab is not appropriate right now. I often wonder if we jumped into that too soon but there really wasn't anything else we could do to get her away from that element. She tells me to this day that she was not an addict, just wanted to be free and wild and was able to forget her problems when she was high. To see her now I am amazed at her transformation. She is living with her boyfriend who has a 5 year old daughter he has custody of and my difficult child is so wonderful with her. She tells me how she wants to keep her away from bad kids (they live in an area of town that is very poor and has a lot of problems). She has started the proces of getting two of her tattoos removed because she now realizes they have restricted her employment. She is cooking dinners and cleaning and goes to work every day at 6:15 a.m. When she was 18 and living in the basement of a heroin addict's house I was sure she would die. If my difficult child can turn it around yours can too. The fact that your difficult child is doing well in school is a huge plus factor. Getting her into counseling is probably the best thing you can do right now. Hopefully her best friend will stick with her. I know all about the druggie friends they find when they want. Ask my difficult child now and she will tell you how they are all losers, but at the time they were her new bffs. I agree it's risky to allow her to go off to college. That was my difficult child's downfall for sure. And yet I also know she will give up her scholarship opportunities, it's a tough call. For my difficult child she had no scholarship and we just wasted a semester of tuition. Keep posting, we have all been there and we care. P.S. If you've been on this site for a long time then you know the struggles we've had with our difficult child in terms of her adoption and her treatment of us. She has never been so loving to us as she has the past year. She was just over yesterday and hugged me and told me she loved me. She is always telling us how she doesn't know what she would have done without us and how grateful she is for everythign we have done for her. We have wonderful conversations now and she never asks for anything and is very grateful for any help we give her. [/QUOTE]
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