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Might have been a tad too blunt
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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 445617" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Nope, not too blunt. You know, it's really not even about the damage done to the family relationships (though heaven knows there's tons of that). I found that family therapy was more of one big excuse for thank you - "Well, if Mom did/didn't do ABC" or "If Dad did/didn't do XYZ" - who needs that junk, especially with- 18 looming? thank you was about Kanga's age when I did the same thing. It's just so not about the family anymore - it's about the kid and him/her getting a grip and participating in their own darn lives without using the family as an excuse for every little thing. I just couldn't have cared less that he thought I was always yelling at him and mad (can we talk about lousy ability to interpret social cues, even to this day?) or that Dad was "disappointed" in him... that horse had been beaten to death in the prior 12 years of family therapy. Enough already. Therapy needs to, in my humble opinion, address her skills, her behaviors, her choices, and her consequences, completely separate from the family unit, because she's still engaging in completely inappropriate choices now, what, 3 years (?) away from the family.</p><p></p><p>Not blunt, or in any way unreasonable, in my humble opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 445617, member: 8"] Nope, not too blunt. You know, it's really not even about the damage done to the family relationships (though heaven knows there's tons of that). I found that family therapy was more of one big excuse for thank you - "Well, if Mom did/didn't do ABC" or "If Dad did/didn't do XYZ" - who needs that junk, especially with- 18 looming? thank you was about Kanga's age when I did the same thing. It's just so not about the family anymore - it's about the kid and him/her getting a grip and participating in their own darn lives without using the family as an excuse for every little thing. I just couldn't have cared less that he thought I was always yelling at him and mad (can we talk about lousy ability to interpret social cues, even to this day?) or that Dad was "disappointed" in him... that horse had been beaten to death in the prior 12 years of family therapy. Enough already. Therapy needs to, in my humble opinion, address her skills, her behaviors, her choices, and her consequences, completely separate from the family unit, because she's still engaging in completely inappropriate choices now, what, 3 years (?) away from the family. Not blunt, or in any way unreasonable, in my humble opinion. [/QUOTE]
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