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Re: Did addiction turn your kid difficult child or was your kid a difficult child who became addict?
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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 564380"><p>Hi and Welcome, my story is similar to yours in many ways... My difficult child started being a difficult child about the age of 3 and was always difficult in some ways and very impuslive but also delightful. He started using drugs somewhere between the age of 12 and 14 and that made things much much worse. He is now 21 and has been in several rehabs, several sober houses, has a criminal record etc. We have tried and tried to help him and given him many opportunities to turn things around. I am glad we have done that as at this point it has helped give me the peace of mind that we have done everything possible to help him and now truly the decision is up to him. So now we are in sporadic contact via facebook, our communication when it happens is good BUT I dont currently know where he is. He is hitchiking around the country, homeless and managing to survive on his own. He has now been doing this for 3 months. The last time I heard from him was a week ago, he was in Utah on his way to CO. So I am just waiting until I hear from him again.</p><p></p><p>However even with all that I am in a much better place than I have been in the past. It is so so much easier to have him not living here... I was remembering today how much I would look forward to Mondays just to get to work and out of the house. Now I am sad the weekend is over!!!</p><p></p><p>TL</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 564380"] Hi and Welcome, my story is similar to yours in many ways... My difficult child started being a difficult child about the age of 3 and was always difficult in some ways and very impuslive but also delightful. He started using drugs somewhere between the age of 12 and 14 and that made things much much worse. He is now 21 and has been in several rehabs, several sober houses, has a criminal record etc. We have tried and tried to help him and given him many opportunities to turn things around. I am glad we have done that as at this point it has helped give me the peace of mind that we have done everything possible to help him and now truly the decision is up to him. So now we are in sporadic contact via facebook, our communication when it happens is good BUT I dont currently know where he is. He is hitchiking around the country, homeless and managing to survive on his own. He has now been doing this for 3 months. The last time I heard from him was a week ago, he was in Utah on his way to CO. So I am just waiting until I hear from him again. However even with all that I am in a much better place than I have been in the past. It is so so much easier to have him not living here... I was remembering today how much I would look forward to Mondays just to get to work and out of the house. Now I am sad the weekend is over!!! TL [/QUOTE]
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