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<blockquote data-quote="BackintheSaddle" data-source="post: 620879" data-attributes="member: 17503"><p>Hey Echo- I'm so sorry you're feeling confused but I think you did great! you took advantage of seeing him while at the same time sticking to all your boundaries...and like Cedar, I think you're blessed to have a difficult child who still reaches out to you, even (sort of) apologized for what he was doing--and he's clearly doing things 'his own way'...he's happy, and seems to just want to stay in touch with you, his Mom...it doesn't sound like he's meeting with you to ask for money, just to walk with you to work or whatever...he even did a good job for money, a fair exchange in other words...addicts other have to try things their way before they realize, after relapsing, that their way doesn't work and they have to ask for help (a very hard thing for most to do)...I love MWM's suggestion of just listening to him, keeping the interchange at the surface level and then Cedar's of relishing the joy of actually seeing him and spending some positive time with him..I really would give anything for my difficult child to reach out to me in a positive way..I haven't seen him in ~6 weeks and he couldn't care less...as Cedar said--</p><p> </p><p>But any time you see your son, any time you can touch that sweetness in him, any time you can love Echo...I think you need to do that.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Read more: <a href="http://www.conductdisorders.com/community/threads/looking-for-some-shared-wisdom-as-period-of-no-contact-ends.56515/#ixzz2uAdNskL5" target="_blank">http://www.conductdisorders.com/community/threads/looking-for-some-shared-wisdom-as-period-of-no-contact-ends.56515/#ixzz2uAdNskL5</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BackintheSaddle, post: 620879, member: 17503"] Hey Echo- I'm so sorry you're feeling confused but I think you did great! you took advantage of seeing him while at the same time sticking to all your boundaries...and like Cedar, I think you're blessed to have a difficult child who still reaches out to you, even (sort of) apologized for what he was doing--and he's clearly doing things 'his own way'...he's happy, and seems to just want to stay in touch with you, his Mom...it doesn't sound like he's meeting with you to ask for money, just to walk with you to work or whatever...he even did a good job for money, a fair exchange in other words...addicts other have to try things their way before they realize, after relapsing, that their way doesn't work and they have to ask for help (a very hard thing for most to do)...I love MWM's suggestion of just listening to him, keeping the interchange at the surface level and then Cedar's of relishing the joy of actually seeing him and spending some positive time with him..I really would give anything for my difficult child to reach out to me in a positive way..I haven't seen him in ~6 weeks and he couldn't care less...as Cedar said-- But any time you see your son, any time you can touch that sweetness in him, any time you can love Echo...I think you need to do that. Read more: [url]http://www.conductdisorders.com/community/threads/looking-for-some-shared-wisdom-as-period-of-no-contact-ends.56515/#ixzz2uAdNskL5[/url] [/QUOTE]
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