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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 681252" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>To me this story illustrates the need for boundaries and clarity.</p><p></p><p>As long as son is in the house, addicted, without the mandate that he get treatment, above and before anything else, the parents have inserted themselves in some way as responsible. I fear that the boundaries are murky, the message is murky.</p><p></p><p>We have seen this before, where we as parents, hang on to hopes and dreams, as the cover story, especially when college is involved.</p><p></p><p>Addiction and mental illness, and the two combined, become the principal and dominant story no matter how nice the child, and how great the dream.</p><p></p><p>The truth of it, is this child will do it his way. He already is. That is the elephant in the room. No amount of hope and love on the part of us, as parents, can trump that.</p><p></p><p>COPA</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 681252, member: 18958"] To me this story illustrates the need for boundaries and clarity. As long as son is in the house, addicted, without the mandate that he get treatment, above and before anything else, the parents have inserted themselves in some way as responsible. I fear that the boundaries are murky, the message is murky. We have seen this before, where we as parents, hang on to hopes and dreams, as the cover story, especially when college is involved. Addiction and mental illness, and the two combined, become the principal and dominant story no matter how nice the child, and how great the dream. The truth of it, is this child will do it his way. He already is. That is the elephant in the room. No amount of hope and love on the part of us, as parents, can trump that. COPA [/QUOTE]
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