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I need a pep talk on letting go
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 518908" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Personally I dont think its an all or nothing sort of thing. I think you sort of slowly begin to allow them to handle their own lives. Yes it doesnt feel good. We want to kiss the owies because we are the mom's but we cant anymore. They have to do their own fixing. The other day Cory took a mental health day just for himself and didnt let anyone else know where he would be. I have a feeling he and Mandy had been arguing and he was a bit fed up so he sort of disappeared for about 8 hours or so. She was livid. She called here twice looking for him. In the past, that would have worried me and I would have been calling the hospitals and the jails looking for him but this time I just figured if something happened we would be notified. My address is in his records and on his ID. If someone needed to find me, they could. I wasnt going to worry about it. </p><p></p><p>I have had to learn really young to put that worrying aside for Jamie so I just transferred it over to Cory. Lord if I had spent all my time worrying about what could be happening to Jamie first in the Marines and now working in law enforcement, I would be a basket case. Its out of my hands. </p><p></p><p>I figure you hope for the best and prepare for the worst. I take good days and ignore the bad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 518908, member: 1514"] Personally I dont think its an all or nothing sort of thing. I think you sort of slowly begin to allow them to handle their own lives. Yes it doesnt feel good. We want to kiss the owies because we are the mom's but we cant anymore. They have to do their own fixing. The other day Cory took a mental health day just for himself and didnt let anyone else know where he would be. I have a feeling he and Mandy had been arguing and he was a bit fed up so he sort of disappeared for about 8 hours or so. She was livid. She called here twice looking for him. In the past, that would have worried me and I would have been calling the hospitals and the jails looking for him but this time I just figured if something happened we would be notified. My address is in his records and on his ID. If someone needed to find me, they could. I wasnt going to worry about it. I have had to learn really young to put that worrying aside for Jamie so I just transferred it over to Cory. Lord if I had spent all my time worrying about what could be happening to Jamie first in the Marines and now working in law enforcement, I would be a basket case. Its out of my hands. I figure you hope for the best and prepare for the worst. I take good days and ignore the bad. [/QUOTE]
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