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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 595414" data-attributes="member: 15801"><p>Well we are still on the fence to be honest. In principal I agree with you giving him a phone is enabling him and may get him into more trouble... probably wont get him into less. It was much easier for me to think about not giving him a phone when he was getting on FB everyday.... so that even if I wasnt directly in contact, or his posts were dark and awful at least I knew he was alive. I am having a hard time now that there seems to be no contact at all. .. Sure if he really needs to contact us he will find a way but he may not feel any need to contact us..... and that means for me I have no idea if he is alive or not or where he is and that kind of drives me nuts. And I have no way to contact him!</p><p></p><p>That is where the phone comes in handy... in times where he is not contacting us I can at least see if he is talking to someone (and therefore alive) and worst case as long as his phone is on we can track him with the gps feature.</p><p></p><p>Of course at the moment I am not even sure where to send a phone.... and if he is really coming back here then I could just wait and give it to him when I see him.</p><p></p><p>So really although I know the phone is enabling him it also brings me some peace of mind and so I may still do it anyways.....I have certainly done my share of not enabling him and standing strong and will continue to do so... like continuing to let him be homeless.</p><p></p><p>*TL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 595414, member: 15801"] Well we are still on the fence to be honest. In principal I agree with you giving him a phone is enabling him and may get him into more trouble... probably wont get him into less. It was much easier for me to think about not giving him a phone when he was getting on FB everyday.... so that even if I wasnt directly in contact, or his posts were dark and awful at least I knew he was alive. I am having a hard time now that there seems to be no contact at all. .. Sure if he really needs to contact us he will find a way but he may not feel any need to contact us..... and that means for me I have no idea if he is alive or not or where he is and that kind of drives me nuts. And I have no way to contact him! That is where the phone comes in handy... in times where he is not contacting us I can at least see if he is talking to someone (and therefore alive) and worst case as long as his phone is on we can track him with the gps feature. Of course at the moment I am not even sure where to send a phone.... and if he is really coming back here then I could just wait and give it to him when I see him. So really although I know the phone is enabling him it also brings me some peace of mind and so I may still do it anyways.....I have certainly done my share of not enabling him and standing strong and will continue to do so... like continuing to let him be homeless. *TL [/QUOTE]
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