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Letting go: I seem to be unable to do this.
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<blockquote data-quote="Elsi" data-source="post: 739488" data-attributes="member: 23349"><p>Copa, I am so sorry you are going through this right now. This sounds like exactly the kind of thinking g both of my difficult children have - the search for higher meaning somewhere ‘out there’, the rejection of what we think of as normal everyday life and responsibilities as somehow false and meaningless, the fetishizing of dysfunction and drama and pain as some how more authentic or more meaningful than building a life in our world. </p><p></p><p>I am in that same process right now. Getting sucked back in, feeling like I should go into rescue mode. Worrying about every cryptic text. Wondering if I should send emergency services in when he sounds suicidal - not that I know where to send them. Feeling like me sending another $20 on Venmo is the only thing keeping him in this world. </p><p></p><p>I like OTE’s approach of acknowledging without getting sucked in. It’s what I’m trying to do as well. Not always successfully. I’m right there with you, starting over each day resolving to reestablish my boundaries. Stay strong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Elsi, post: 739488, member: 23349"] Copa, I am so sorry you are going through this right now. This sounds like exactly the kind of thinking g both of my difficult children have - the search for higher meaning somewhere ‘out there’, the rejection of what we think of as normal everyday life and responsibilities as somehow false and meaningless, the fetishizing of dysfunction and drama and pain as some how more authentic or more meaningful than building a life in our world. I am in that same process right now. Getting sucked back in, feeling like I should go into rescue mode. Worrying about every cryptic text. Wondering if I should send emergency services in when he sounds suicidal - not that I know where to send them. Feeling like me sending another $20 on Venmo is the only thing keeping him in this world. I like OTE’s approach of acknowledging without getting sucked in. It’s what I’m trying to do as well. Not always successfully. I’m right there with you, starting over each day resolving to reestablish my boundaries. Stay strong. [/QUOTE]
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