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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 448748" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>Hi Nomad!</p><p></p><p>difficult child had to leave the last place that she lived because she had been living off her school loans and ran out of money to pay the rent. The family that she was renting a room from let her stay two months for free before they finally told her that she had to leave.</p><p></p><p>Self-sabotage is definitely a factor here. She has done it before. I think it is also due to a drinking problem. The two months that she was here before this happened were great but she wasn't drinking. As soon as we left, she started drinking and everything fell apart.</p><p></p><p>I'm still puzzled about one thing that happened. When difficult child moved back in, I made it clear that it was temporary and that she was not to put up any pictures in the guest room to "decorate" it as her bedroom. She obeyed the rule until we left. When I walked into her room the day we got back, she had put up posters and pictures and filled the shelves with family pictures that had her in them. She also went into the basement and go out old tennis and Odyssey of the Mind trophies that she had won and put them up on display. It was bizarre because these were trophies from middle and high school. I think she probably did this while she was drinking but why?</p><p></p><p>That's what I can't stop asking myself . . . why? All she had to do was follow our rules and show that she could be trusted for 10 days. Everything was going so well. Why did she do this??</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 448748, member: 1967"] Hi Nomad! difficult child had to leave the last place that she lived because she had been living off her school loans and ran out of money to pay the rent. The family that she was renting a room from let her stay two months for free before they finally told her that she had to leave. Self-sabotage is definitely a factor here. She has done it before. I think it is also due to a drinking problem. The two months that she was here before this happened were great but she wasn't drinking. As soon as we left, she started drinking and everything fell apart. I'm still puzzled about one thing that happened. When difficult child moved back in, I made it clear that it was temporary and that she was not to put up any pictures in the guest room to "decorate" it as her bedroom. She obeyed the rule until we left. When I walked into her room the day we got back, she had put up posters and pictures and filled the shelves with family pictures that had her in them. She also went into the basement and go out old tennis and Odyssey of the Mind trophies that she had won and put them up on display. It was bizarre because these were trophies from middle and high school. I think she probably did this while she was drinking but why? That's what I can't stop asking myself . . . why? All she had to do was follow our rules and show that she could be trusted for 10 days. Everything was going so well. Why did she do this?? ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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