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It's A New Week, Mikey...How's It Going?
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<blockquote data-quote="everywoman" data-source="post: 61600" data-attributes="member: 1436"><p>Mikey, I don't respond much because I understand your need to blog and vent and I also understand the situation you are in---we've all been there before we got to where we are now---in the land of Detachment.</p><p></p><p>I do, however, want to reiterate the danger your family and difficult child will be in as long as he dabbles in the art of addiction. </p><p>Last October my difficult child met up with some guys with baseball bats and a knife. The sight of him sitting in that hosptial bed is one I'll never forget. He ended up with permanent injuries because of his choices. I ended up with threats against me because of his choices.</p><p></p><p>Even that didn't make him quit drugs---he has relasped twice since then. But, he doesn't drive a car with my name attached (actually he doesn't drive at all for the next 80 days because of a MIP charge). He is now a convicted felon at the ripe old age of 19 and can't find a job anywhere. He is stuck in a limbo---can't go back and change and can't go forward because his options are limited. He has done this to himself. But, he knows that it is his life. </p><p></p><p>I tried to control him---I did the same things you and wife are doing---I called, I begged, I pleaded. I sent him to rehab. I sent him to pysch hospitals. He had the best therapy money can buy. Nothing mattered but the drugs.</p><p></p><p>The only thing that has done anything to change him is his little stint in county for 23 days (he would have stayed longer but husband's father died and I couldn't do that to husband!). He has done more changing since April than he did in the five years of medications, therapy, and my trying to "save" him. </p><p></p><p>Sometimes you just have to let go and let God!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="everywoman, post: 61600, member: 1436"] Mikey, I don't respond much because I understand your need to blog and vent and I also understand the situation you are in---we've all been there before we got to where we are now---in the land of Detachment. I do, however, want to reiterate the danger your family and difficult child will be in as long as he dabbles in the art of addiction. Last October my difficult child met up with some guys with baseball bats and a knife. The sight of him sitting in that hosptial bed is one I'll never forget. He ended up with permanent injuries because of his choices. I ended up with threats against me because of his choices. Even that didn't make him quit drugs---he has relasped twice since then. But, he doesn't drive a car with my name attached (actually he doesn't drive at all for the next 80 days because of a MIP charge). He is now a convicted felon at the ripe old age of 19 and can't find a job anywhere. He is stuck in a limbo---can't go back and change and can't go forward because his options are limited. He has done this to himself. But, he knows that it is his life. I tried to control him---I did the same things you and wife are doing---I called, I begged, I pleaded. I sent him to rehab. I sent him to pysch hospitals. He had the best therapy money can buy. Nothing mattered but the drugs. The only thing that has done anything to change him is his little stint in county for 23 days (he would have stayed longer but husband's father died and I couldn't do that to husband!). He has done more changing since April than he did in the five years of medications, therapy, and my trying to "save" him. Sometimes you just have to let go and let God! [/QUOTE]
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