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<blockquote data-quote="Albatross" data-source="post: 692977" data-attributes="member: 17720"><p>SS, it sure does get old. Yet here I sit, with the guilt and worry buttons once again in the fully depressed position. I did not sleep at all last night and am missing work today because of it.</p><p></p><p>He sent many more angry and illogical texts. The last one was bizarre, accusing me of "talking behind his back" to his buddy and other furious nonsense. He said he is "out," throwing out his phone and "pulling a McCandless" (Christopher McCandless, the subject of "Into the Wild," who deliberately disappeared and was found dead 2 years later in backwoods Alaska).</p><p></p><p>I know what is going on here. I do. I see the manipulation, and I know that is what it is. I know better.</p><p></p><p>But it's still working. I feel about 6 shades of terrible mother this morning.</p><p></p><p>I know that the outcome would be the same, no matter what I had done. He would be drunk, or frantically trying to score a drink. The only difference would be which city.</p><p></p><p>But he is very sick, obviously. He needs treatment.</p><p></p><p>He won't get it, I can't make him, and I know that. But he's still out there, and I'm still panicky and sad.</p><p></p><p>I guess I have some work to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Albatross, post: 692977, member: 17720"] SS, it sure does get old. Yet here I sit, with the guilt and worry buttons once again in the fully depressed position. I did not sleep at all last night and am missing work today because of it. He sent many more angry and illogical texts. The last one was bizarre, accusing me of "talking behind his back" to his buddy and other furious nonsense. He said he is "out," throwing out his phone and "pulling a McCandless" (Christopher McCandless, the subject of "Into the Wild," who deliberately disappeared and was found dead 2 years later in backwoods Alaska). I know what is going on here. I do. I see the manipulation, and I know that is what it is. I know better. But it's still working. I feel about 6 shades of terrible mother this morning. I know that the outcome would be the same, no matter what I had done. He would be drunk, or frantically trying to score a drink. The only difference would be which city. But he is very sick, obviously. He needs treatment. He won't get it, I can't make him, and I know that. But he's still out there, and I'm still panicky and sad. I guess I have some work to do. [/QUOTE]
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