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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 629505" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>I just took his backpack to the day shelter. I walked into the waiting room and he was over in the corner, slumped over in a chair, sleeping. I woke him up and we went outside. We sat on a bench and talked for a while. That was not my plan but that is what I ended up doing. I told him a lot of the things I had written in the letter, which I had put inside his backpack.</p><p></p><p>He is angry with his father and with me, and kept saying "ya'll think this and that and you have no idea what is really going on."</p><p></p><p>I said you can let your anger at us keep you stuck or you can do something different, that is your choice. He went on about what happened in the Walmart and blah blab blah and how he hasn't taken drugs---he has been drinking he said---but he hasn't taken drugs, in a long long time. Okay, Okay, I finally said. It doesn't matter, I said. </p><p></p><p>He asked me for $2 for the bus and I gave it to him. I probably shouldn't have. I didn't know what to do. When your son asks you for $2 and you say, No. It's so hard to keep saying No all the time.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I can't go on talking about this right now. My heart is broken, and I don't know what to do next. So I am going to take a shower, go to my two meetings, and then go from there. Minute by minute. </p><p></p><p>This hell on earth seems never to end. Thank you for your warm concern and care. I feel it, and it matters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 629505, member: 17542"] I just took his backpack to the day shelter. I walked into the waiting room and he was over in the corner, slumped over in a chair, sleeping. I woke him up and we went outside. We sat on a bench and talked for a while. That was not my plan but that is what I ended up doing. I told him a lot of the things I had written in the letter, which I had put inside his backpack. He is angry with his father and with me, and kept saying "ya'll think this and that and you have no idea what is really going on." I said you can let your anger at us keep you stuck or you can do something different, that is your choice. He went on about what happened in the Walmart and blah blab blah and how he hasn't taken drugs---he has been drinking he said---but he hasn't taken drugs, in a long long time. Okay, Okay, I finally said. It doesn't matter, I said. He asked me for $2 for the bus and I gave it to him. I probably shouldn't have. I didn't know what to do. When your son asks you for $2 and you say, No. It's so hard to keep saying No all the time. Anyway, I can't go on talking about this right now. My heart is broken, and I don't know what to do next. So I am going to take a shower, go to my two meetings, and then go from there. Minute by minute. This hell on earth seems never to end. Thank you for your warm concern and care. I feel it, and it matters. [/QUOTE]
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