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<blockquote data-quote="Albatross" data-source="post: 709550" data-attributes="member: 17720"><p>I think they see themselves as autonomous without understanding what that means.</p><p></p><p>My son is home now, sober, working a job he loves. We are optimistic but trying to stay realistic, just taking it day by day.</p><p></p><p>I am trying to remember what autonomous means for me emotionally; that is, to not wrap my heart up in his decisions.</p><p></p><p>He told me the other day, when asked why he went so far off the rails, that he was determined to show everybody that he didn't have to live his life the way he was "supposed to."</p><p></p><p>I think we all go through that phase to some extent when we are young. But without any tools and his impetuousness, he became the "rebel without a clue," as the old Tom Petty song goes. The worse it got for him because of his bad decisions, the harder and more humbling it was for him to walk it back.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Albatross, post: 709550, member: 17720"] I think they see themselves as autonomous without understanding what that means. My son is home now, sober, working a job he loves. We are optimistic but trying to stay realistic, just taking it day by day. I am trying to remember what autonomous means for me emotionally; that is, to not wrap my heart up in his decisions. He told me the other day, when asked why he went so far off the rails, that he was determined to show everybody that he didn't have to live his life the way he was "supposed to." I think we all go through that phase to some extent when we are young. But without any tools and his impetuousness, he became the "rebel without a clue," as the old Tom Petty song goes. The worse it got for him because of his bad decisions, the harder and more humbling it was for him to walk it back. [/QUOTE]
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