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<blockquote data-quote="everywoman" data-source="post: 84878" data-attributes="member: 1436"><p>I have sent mine away several times---pysch hospital, rehab, jail, but he always finds his way back. Guilt---nope! My dad, who was the ultimate difficult child and never was much of a father, did give me the best advice of my life right after my first marriage ended and I was facing the daunting job of being a single parent. "You do what you do---you make mistakes and if you let the guilt eat you up, it will destroy you." I wish he had taken his own advice---he died at 57---but I understood what he was saying and took it to heart. I recognize my own faults--I am human. I wish that sending difficult child away had made a difference in his life, but it didn't. What it did do was give everyone at home a reprieve from his choices and the turmoil he caused.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="everywoman, post: 84878, member: 1436"] I have sent mine away several times---pysch hospital, rehab, jail, but he always finds his way back. Guilt---nope! My dad, who was the ultimate difficult child and never was much of a father, did give me the best advice of my life right after my first marriage ended and I was facing the daunting job of being a single parent. "You do what you do---you make mistakes and if you let the guilt eat you up, it will destroy you." I wish he had taken his own advice---he died at 57---but I understood what he was saying and took it to heart. I recognize my own faults--I am human. I wish that sending difficult child away had made a difference in his life, but it didn't. What it did do was give everyone at home a reprieve from his choices and the turmoil he caused. [/QUOTE]
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