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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 570465" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>Witzend, thank you for posting that, I truly appreciate you and what you just said. I also completely understand that we all make different choices, and we all have to come to our own difficult decisions where our kids are concerned. I haven't been around for a long time and of course, I wasn't here for all of your history, but I do appreciate that you made some very challenging choices, especially to move so far away and those choices have given you peace. I envy the detachment you've achieved. I know you must have worked very hard to get there. I'm working hard to create a new 'normal' for myself and my family, always a struggle when my difficult child seemingly works against me, it's like always swimming upstream against the current. I see you making a life for yourself, a new life, born out of the ashes of your former life....... and what courage and fortitude it took, but you did it. I applaud you. And, it gives me an example of someone who 'started fresh' as you put it rather then stay in a place where the struggle will continue because we have no power to change it. Those expectations of something changing when they likely won't are really so damaging. So, anyway, thanks so much for leaping out of that upstream current onto an easier path and offering us another option to consider. A very Merry Christmas to you, I know you will enjoy it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 570465, member: 13542"] Witzend, thank you for posting that, I truly appreciate you and what you just said. I also completely understand that we all make different choices, and we all have to come to our own difficult decisions where our kids are concerned. I haven't been around for a long time and of course, I wasn't here for all of your history, but I do appreciate that you made some very challenging choices, especially to move so far away and those choices have given you peace. I envy the detachment you've achieved. I know you must have worked very hard to get there. I'm working hard to create a new 'normal' for myself and my family, always a struggle when my difficult child seemingly works against me, it's like always swimming upstream against the current. I see you making a life for yourself, a new life, born out of the ashes of your former life....... and what courage and fortitude it took, but you did it. I applaud you. And, it gives me an example of someone who 'started fresh' as you put it rather then stay in a place where the struggle will continue because we have no power to change it. Those expectations of something changing when they likely won't are really so damaging. So, anyway, thanks so much for leaping out of that upstream current onto an easier path and offering us another option to consider. A very Merry Christmas to you, I know you will enjoy it. [/QUOTE]
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