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Serious help needed!18 yr old, now what?
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 297857" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I'm wondering if you and husband are just not enough on the same page. It would be very difficult for you to be, of course, given the work situation. When you're on your own trying to hold things together, you try to clamp down hard. Then husband comes back in and tries to resolve things and play peacemaker and make you soften up or lighten up a bit - it would be confusing for the kids. But I suspect difficult child, forall his complaining about it, has been using it too, to get round you.</p><p></p><p>If it's at all possible, difficult child might be better off living away from home now. You can still be a support for him (as much as he lets you) but maybe this way he will learn (fast) how to get on with other people; that it's not jusy you making demands on him, but anybody he lives with will be hard on him. harder than you, most likely.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes our kids have to leave home before they can really learn, or appreciate us.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 297857, member: 1991"] I'm wondering if you and husband are just not enough on the same page. It would be very difficult for you to be, of course, given the work situation. When you're on your own trying to hold things together, you try to clamp down hard. Then husband comes back in and tries to resolve things and play peacemaker and make you soften up or lighten up a bit - it would be confusing for the kids. But I suspect difficult child, forall his complaining about it, has been using it too, to get round you. If it's at all possible, difficult child might be better off living away from home now. You can still be a support for him (as much as he lets you) but maybe this way he will learn (fast) how to get on with other people; that it's not jusy you making demands on him, but anybody he lives with will be hard on him. harder than you, most likely. Sometimes our kids have to leave home before they can really learn, or appreciate us. Marg [/QUOTE]
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