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<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 617973" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>Debbie.....of course it isn't you. BUt if it is you...then...you did a great thing by helping your son remove himself from your influence! Great parenting! You protected him from badness (I love playing with circular reasoning). He should thank you!</p><p>My daughter (not the difficult child, although she had her time on the stage) told me once that I was toxic. I had a rare, rare moment of clarity that was not consumed by guilt...and I said "If that is true then you are the only one who can save yourself from having your life ruined by my toxicity. That is your responsibility". I was right. ITs true. That prism holds no matter how you turn it. It is all of our responsbilities (I'm getting tangled now in singular and pleurals) to keep our lives from being ruined by toxic others, whether they be our parents, our lovers, our children, our bosses, our friends. </p><p>You can't ruin his life, only he can do that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 617973, member: 17269"] Debbie.....of course it isn't you. BUt if it is you...then...you did a great thing by helping your son remove himself from your influence! Great parenting! You protected him from badness (I love playing with circular reasoning). He should thank you! My daughter (not the difficult child, although she had her time on the stage) told me once that I was toxic. I had a rare, rare moment of clarity that was not consumed by guilt...and I said "If that is true then you are the only one who can save yourself from having your life ruined by my toxicity. That is your responsibility". I was right. ITs true. That prism holds no matter how you turn it. It is all of our responsbilities (I'm getting tangled now in singular and pleurals) to keep our lives from being ruined by toxic others, whether they be our parents, our lovers, our children, our bosses, our friends. You can't ruin his life, only he can do that. [/QUOTE]
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