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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 270239" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>Welcome to our group. You are not alone. Many of us struggle with tough love. The truth of your situation is that your son has been very honest with you. He can not live with your rules. You are doing very well to not give in to him. When we keep trying to fix our kids, we usually make it easier for them to continue doing the things that we don't approve of. </p><p></p><p>Reality is that as a general rule, 19 year old dope smokers don't usually have a job or a lot of their own resources. When you give him resources, he will put whatever he has into getting drugs. We give them a place to stay because we worry about them, and what it ends up being is a nice warm place to get high in.</p><p></p><p>I know it's hard, but you are doing the right thing. The thought that tough love will make him do more drugs is wrong. Helping them makes them do more drugs because it makes doing drugs easy.</p><p></p><p>Good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 270239, member: 99"] Welcome to our group. You are not alone. Many of us struggle with tough love. The truth of your situation is that your son has been very honest with you. He can not live with your rules. You are doing very well to not give in to him. When we keep trying to fix our kids, we usually make it easier for them to continue doing the things that we don't approve of. Reality is that as a general rule, 19 year old dope smokers don't usually have a job or a lot of their own resources. When you give him resources, he will put whatever he has into getting drugs. We give them a place to stay because we worry about them, and what it ends up being is a nice warm place to get high in. I know it's hard, but you are doing the right thing. The thought that tough love will make him do more drugs is wrong. Helping them makes them do more drugs because it makes doing drugs easy. Good luck. [/QUOTE]
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