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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 690632" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>I do this too, you guys. With daughter, I can touch that child she was. I can see her as a child and recognize her in the adult she has become. But with son, the change in him is so extreme that it almost seems he cannot possibly be that little boy, or that sweetly vulnerable adolescent boy, I remember at all.</p><p></p><p>I think the difference is that, while daughter did use drugs, drugs were not the initial problem. The drug use began to help her cope with something that was already there. For son, the problem <em>was</em> the drug use. More drugs, and more kinds of drugs, and for a longer time. I think that is what happened to that little boy I raised. </p><p></p><p>I agree that we can love them as we did when they were little kids. It isn't going to make any difference to the child who refuses to see us whether we love the thought of them now or the thought of them as children, but to find the love we held for them as children helps us very much.</p><p></p><p>Thank you, Albie. I got the biggest charge out of this!</p><p></p><p>:O)</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 690632, member: 17461"] I do this too, you guys. With daughter, I can touch that child she was. I can see her as a child and recognize her in the adult she has become. But with son, the change in him is so extreme that it almost seems he cannot possibly be that little boy, or that sweetly vulnerable adolescent boy, I remember at all. I think the difference is that, while daughter did use drugs, drugs were not the initial problem. The drug use began to help her cope with something that was already there. For son, the problem [I]was[/I] the drug use. More drugs, and more kinds of drugs, and for a longer time. I think that is what happened to that little boy I raised. I agree that we can love them as we did when they were little kids. It isn't going to make any difference to the child who refuses to see us whether we love the thought of them now or the thought of them as children, but to find the love we held for them as children helps us very much. Thank you, Albie. I got the biggest charge out of this! :O) Cedar [/QUOTE]
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