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Me again - easy child losing it because of difficult child....
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<blockquote data-quote="Mikey" data-source="post: 47012" data-attributes="member: 3579"><p><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">"Beastette"? Has difficult child's g/f gone over to the dark side?</div></div></p><p></p><p>Nope, she's still "clean" and 4.0+ GPA in the HS honors track. No other personal issues I know of (other than being as big of a horndog as my son is).</p><p></p><p>I call her "beastette" because I've finally figured out she's one of the "good girls" who's attracted to "bad boys". She's under a lot of pressure at home to be perfect (yet another family chock-full of difficult child's and one easy child that the parents cling to desparately). Hanging with the bad boys (like my son) is her way to experience vicariously the things she doesn't have the courage to do herself (in defiance of her parents).</p><p></p><p>That makes her an enabler of my son. There have been times when I think he's making progress, only to be drug back down into the depths. That may be the normal cycle of an addict, but both the beast's therapist and I think his girlfriend has something to do with keeping him where he is as well. Can't put a definite finger on any one thing, just my "daddy" sense tingling.</p><p></p><p>Despite her own "perfect" life (she's already getting invitation letters from Yale, Harvard, Stanford, etc...), she does nothing to help my son be anything other than the stoned loafer he usually aspires to. She drives him around when he's too stoned to drive himself. She hangs with the Pothead Posse when they're partying.</p><p></p><p>So that's why she's earned the nickname. </p><p></p><p>Mikey</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mikey, post: 47012, member: 3579"] <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">"Beastette"? Has difficult child's g/f gone over to the dark side?</div></div> Nope, she's still "clean" and 4.0+ GPA in the HS honors track. No other personal issues I know of (other than being as big of a horndog as my son is). I call her "beastette" because I've finally figured out she's one of the "good girls" who's attracted to "bad boys". She's under a lot of pressure at home to be perfect (yet another family chock-full of difficult child's and one easy child that the parents cling to desparately). Hanging with the bad boys (like my son) is her way to experience vicariously the things she doesn't have the courage to do herself (in defiance of her parents). That makes her an enabler of my son. There have been times when I think he's making progress, only to be drug back down into the depths. That may be the normal cycle of an addict, but both the beast's therapist and I think his girlfriend has something to do with keeping him where he is as well. Can't put a definite finger on any one thing, just my "daddy" sense tingling. Despite her own "perfect" life (she's already getting invitation letters from Yale, Harvard, Stanford, etc...), she does nothing to help my son be anything other than the stoned loafer he usually aspires to. She drives him around when he's too stoned to drive himself. She hangs with the Pothead Posse when they're partying. So that's why she's earned the nickname. Mikey [/QUOTE]
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