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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 650513" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>LMS it sounds like you had a good conversation with him. Hang onto that and remember it. My son went to the salvation army rehab once and ended up just staying for three mobths after getting kicked out twice for using. That wasn't "the bottom" either but who is to say that the culmination of all of the rehabs together finally started to penetrate perhaps. </p><p></p><p>I don't know the answer or the combination that works. I think it is time and prayer and getting older and rehab and people stopping enabling and who knows what else? And even when progress happens it may or may not stick.</p><p></p><p>I am still learning this. I am glad you have these loving but grief filled memories. We want so much to return to when times were good but we also realize that is not only possible but perhaps not even desirable.</p><p></p><p>We are all a product of our own journeys and most of us have experienced tremendous pain grief and growth if we are lucky from it all. </p><p></p><p>Perhaps that is just the way of the world. Who would ever have thought we on this site would have to endure what we have? </p><p></p><p>I am grateful that I don't know the future and I am coming to realize that there is an equal chance for great joy as there is the same chance for great pain.</p><p></p><p>What I am going to do, today, to try to live the best possible life I can live? Part of that answer for me includes letting go of people places and things and as you are, remembering the blessed sweet moments and look forward but do not expect more of those moments in my future. </p><p></p><p>You have a solid perspective and I am praying today that your son hears something new in a new way where he is right now. And in the meantime you and your Husband can focus on yourselves and enjoy today. </p><p></p><p>Thank you for sharing here. Please keep posting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 650513, member: 17542"] LMS it sounds like you had a good conversation with him. Hang onto that and remember it. My son went to the salvation army rehab once and ended up just staying for three mobths after getting kicked out twice for using. That wasn't "the bottom" either but who is to say that the culmination of all of the rehabs together finally started to penetrate perhaps. I don't know the answer or the combination that works. I think it is time and prayer and getting older and rehab and people stopping enabling and who knows what else? And even when progress happens it may or may not stick. I am still learning this. I am glad you have these loving but grief filled memories. We want so much to return to when times were good but we also realize that is not only possible but perhaps not even desirable. We are all a product of our own journeys and most of us have experienced tremendous pain grief and growth if we are lucky from it all. Perhaps that is just the way of the world. Who would ever have thought we on this site would have to endure what we have? I am grateful that I don't know the future and I am coming to realize that there is an equal chance for great joy as there is the same chance for great pain. What I am going to do, today, to try to live the best possible life I can live? Part of that answer for me includes letting go of people places and things and as you are, remembering the blessed sweet moments and look forward but do not expect more of those moments in my future. You have a solid perspective and I am praying today that your son hears something new in a new way where he is right now. And in the meantime you and your Husband can focus on yourselves and enjoy today. Thank you for sharing here. Please keep posting. [/QUOTE]
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