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<blockquote data-quote="RN0441" data-source="post: 709282" data-attributes="member: 15032"><p>Copa</p><p></p><p>Yes it makes me feel sick too. It truly does. </p><p></p><p>When we do for him it results in him NOT doing for himself. I see that more clearly now. I think that this has opened my husband's eyes also. He was seeing what he wanted to see i.e. it's been rough but now he's on the right track! I almost hurt more for him than for myself. It really broke his heart this time.</p><p></p><p>Is my son a narcissistic sociopath? Does he even care or know how much he hurt us? My husband now has an answer to the question he posed last week. Would our son still be on the couch doing nothing with his life if he were home??? I knew the answer to that and now he does too.</p><p></p><p>We are trying to enforce consequences without saying anything crazy that we can't back up. I tend to do that out of anger but my husband is much clearer thinking when it comes to really being able to do WHAT we say we are doing. We know we need to back way off now. We cannot have a normal relationship with him. It is so hard. I know that him not being able to see us will hurt him very much.</p><p></p><p>If not for my therapist and this forum I'd go nuts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RN0441, post: 709282, member: 15032"] Copa Yes it makes me feel sick too. It truly does. When we do for him it results in him NOT doing for himself. I see that more clearly now. I think that this has opened my husband's eyes also. He was seeing what he wanted to see i.e. it's been rough but now he's on the right track! I almost hurt more for him than for myself. It really broke his heart this time. Is my son a narcissistic sociopath? Does he even care or know how much he hurt us? My husband now has an answer to the question he posed last week. Would our son still be on the couch doing nothing with his life if he were home??? I knew the answer to that and now he does too. We are trying to enforce consequences without saying anything crazy that we can't back up. I tend to do that out of anger but my husband is much clearer thinking when it comes to really being able to do WHAT we say we are doing. We know we need to back way off now. We cannot have a normal relationship with him. It is so hard. I know that him not being able to see us will hurt him very much. If not for my therapist and this forum I'd go nuts. [/QUOTE]
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