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<blockquote data-quote="Calamity Jane" data-source="post: 627840" data-attributes="member: 13882"><p>Teary Eyed,</p><p>Your post just melted my heart, and brought back so many memories and feelings of a time I wish to never recall. Please know that I and all of us here have been where you are, and are right here with you now.</p><p> </p><p>I often have thoughts that I've failed at the only important job I have: mothering. I think all these years have been for naught - that I've made no positive impact on the person God put in my hands to raise and nurture. It sounds so extreme when I read it, but it's a tape I play over and over in my head. On an intellectual level I realize that's not true, and you should too. We've done everything humanly possible with an impossible task, and we haven't given up. Our difficult child's have free will, and even though their thoughts are irrational because of illness and/or substance abuse, they can choose to avail themselves of the help that is always offered. It is cruel for us to watch what is happening with no power to stop it. I just want to acknowledge your feelings, and tell you this board is a compassionate source of support and understanding. Sending you hugs...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calamity Jane, post: 627840, member: 13882"] Teary Eyed, Your post just melted my heart, and brought back so many memories and feelings of a time I wish to never recall. Please know that I and all of us here have been where you are, and are right here with you now. I often have thoughts that I've failed at the only important job I have: mothering. I think all these years have been for naught - that I've made no positive impact on the person God put in my hands to raise and nurture. It sounds so extreme when I read it, but it's a tape I play over and over in my head. On an intellectual level I realize that's not true, and you should too. We've done everything humanly possible with an impossible task, and we haven't given up. Our difficult child's have free will, and even though their thoughts are irrational because of illness and/or substance abuse, they can choose to avail themselves of the help that is always offered. It is cruel for us to watch what is happening with no power to stop it. I just want to acknowledge your feelings, and tell you this board is a compassionate source of support and understanding. Sending you hugs... [/QUOTE]
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