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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 592206" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Do NOT feel guilty.</p><p></p><p>Unless you lit some weed and stuffed it in his mouth and put a gun to his head forcing him to inhale, he made that decision himself. Ditto for his other drug use. Unless you taught him, "Be rude to us!" he made the decision on his own, in spite of being taught correctly and drug use does NOTHING for the manners of our teens. This kid, like most of our difficult child teens, got into a bad crowd of kids and decided that his peers were more important than his family and we didn't teach our kids that at all. They chose to disregard their upbringing. </p><p></p><p>Take a load off your shoulders. Your son is almost a man (even if he is not emotionally mature) and soon he will be held accountable for all that he does and only HE can make the necessary changes to turn his life around. It does happen to some of our difficult child teens, even when we think it will NEVER happen. Take care of yourself. Try to reconnect with your husband and pay attention and spend time with loving family and friends who treat you the way you deserve. You have a life completely seperate from your child (took me a loooooooooong time to believe this one), but you deserve to have a GOOD, productive, peaceful life in spite of your child ruining his own life. </p><p></p><p>Unless you beat him with a frying pan on the head, you are not responsible for your son's behavior and therefore you have no reason to feel any guilt. Please...give yourself the break you deserve! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> We care about you here <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 592206, member: 1550"] Do NOT feel guilty. Unless you lit some weed and stuffed it in his mouth and put a gun to his head forcing him to inhale, he made that decision himself. Ditto for his other drug use. Unless you taught him, "Be rude to us!" he made the decision on his own, in spite of being taught correctly and drug use does NOTHING for the manners of our teens. This kid, like most of our difficult child teens, got into a bad crowd of kids and decided that his peers were more important than his family and we didn't teach our kids that at all. They chose to disregard their upbringing. Take a load off your shoulders. Your son is almost a man (even if he is not emotionally mature) and soon he will be held accountable for all that he does and only HE can make the necessary changes to turn his life around. It does happen to some of our difficult child teens, even when we think it will NEVER happen. Take care of yourself. Try to reconnect with your husband and pay attention and spend time with loving family and friends who treat you the way you deserve. You have a life completely seperate from your child (took me a loooooooooong time to believe this one), but you deserve to have a GOOD, productive, peaceful life in spite of your child ruining his own life. Unless you beat him with a frying pan on the head, you are not responsible for your son's behavior and therefore you have no reason to feel any guilt. Please...give yourself the break you deserve! :) We care about you here :) [/QUOTE]
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