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it was exactly as i suspected....
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 426715" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Jena, Im going to tell you something you wont want to hear. You keep saying that she is 18 and still not an adult and she is still a child. No...she is now an 18 year old adult child of yours who has lived out of your house now. Once this has happened, they cant come home again. It isnt the same. It doesnt work. Not with easy child's and not with difficult child's. </p><p></p><p>I remember when Jamie went to boot camp and came home on leave one time. He sat in the living room and told us "all those years I wanted so badly to be a grown up but lordy, now I wish I was still a kid." We just looked at him and smiled. He nodded and looked around the house and said, "you know, after all this, I can never come home again. It will never be the same. I am a man now." We all just sat there with tears in our eyes because its true. Once they leave, they cant come home. If they do, they revert back to children. I saw that when Cory came home this last time. It isnt good for them or the parents. Adult kids need to be adults. It gives them a sense of satisfaction of a job well done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 426715, member: 1514"] Jena, Im going to tell you something you wont want to hear. You keep saying that she is 18 and still not an adult and she is still a child. No...she is now an 18 year old adult child of yours who has lived out of your house now. Once this has happened, they cant come home again. It isnt the same. It doesnt work. Not with easy child's and not with difficult child's. I remember when Jamie went to boot camp and came home on leave one time. He sat in the living room and told us "all those years I wanted so badly to be a grown up but lordy, now I wish I was still a kid." We just looked at him and smiled. He nodded and looked around the house and said, "you know, after all this, I can never come home again. It will never be the same. I am a man now." We all just sat there with tears in our eyes because its true. Once they leave, they cant come home. If they do, they revert back to children. I saw that when Cory came home this last time. It isnt good for them or the parents. Adult kids need to be adults. It gives them a sense of satisfaction of a job well done. [/QUOTE]
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