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<blockquote data-quote="stepparentincrisis" data-source="post: 620548" data-attributes="member: 17702"><p>Thank you as well for your reply. The moderator sugegsted I read some of your prior posts and I intended to figure this out today, how to navigate this site efficiently. I have been cut and pasting all of these words of support to my wife and today I encouraged her to sign in and post as well, I think she will. When I posted originally I really was just venting as I felt like there was no one on earth who could possible understand what I was going through as a stepparent, what my wife must be going through as his biological mother, and how this whole dynamic was changing us as people, to sad, worried people. What I see is that I was ignorant in thinking I was alone. These horror stories you all have with our "GFF's" are incredibly touching but it is also comforting knowing that others feel this as well. I was never a counseling guy really, I saw the benefit of therapy but personally never felt I needed it. I think what I needed was to listen and feel supported. I assume everyone replying to me is genuine and everyone has received some type of relief from posting here. And I thought the internet was just good for watching funny cat videos... Who knew? Anyway, today I encouraged my wife to get in touch with his older case workers and a community resource police officer so we can let them know what we are doing and if it is ok. We have something in our state called the Marchman Act, my research shows it is like the Baker Act but for drug use. Is anyone familiar with it? It looks as if we have 3 people (me, my wife and anyone else who has met him) sign a document and file it with the court it will force him to rehab. I used pot in my past, but he does it everyday and told me he is high 90% of the time. He told me he smokes to feel numb and so he doesn't have to deal with all his problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="stepparentincrisis, post: 620548, member: 17702"] Thank you as well for your reply. The moderator sugegsted I read some of your prior posts and I intended to figure this out today, how to navigate this site efficiently. I have been cut and pasting all of these words of support to my wife and today I encouraged her to sign in and post as well, I think she will. When I posted originally I really was just venting as I felt like there was no one on earth who could possible understand what I was going through as a stepparent, what my wife must be going through as his biological mother, and how this whole dynamic was changing us as people, to sad, worried people. What I see is that I was ignorant in thinking I was alone. These horror stories you all have with our "GFF's" are incredibly touching but it is also comforting knowing that others feel this as well. I was never a counseling guy really, I saw the benefit of therapy but personally never felt I needed it. I think what I needed was to listen and feel supported. I assume everyone replying to me is genuine and everyone has received some type of relief from posting here. And I thought the internet was just good for watching funny cat videos... Who knew? Anyway, today I encouraged my wife to get in touch with his older case workers and a community resource police officer so we can let them know what we are doing and if it is ok. We have something in our state called the Marchman Act, my research shows it is like the Baker Act but for drug use. Is anyone familiar with it? It looks as if we have 3 people (me, my wife and anyone else who has met him) sign a document and file it with the court it will force him to rehab. I used pot in my past, but he does it everyday and told me he is high 90% of the time. He told me he smokes to feel numb and so he doesn't have to deal with all his problems. [/QUOTE]
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