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Sick of difficult child using divorce as her excuse...still!
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<blockquote data-quote="jbrain" data-source="post: 58341" data-attributes="member: 3450"><p>Jo,</p><p>With each new therapist for my difficult child 1 she would have to "work through" her father's death (he died when she was 8). It was frustrating to me because her problems started when she was about 3 yrs old--before her dad was sick and 5 yrs before he died. The therapists always seemed to latch on to this as the reason for all her problems. I guess I got pretty callous because I would tell her to get on with her life, got tired of her using her dad's death as an excuse and also as a way to avoid other things she needed to work on. She also would complain that she just didn't know why she couldn't get over it when both her brother and sister seemed to be able to. I don't mean to minimize the effect of his death on her but she sure milked it for all it was worth and the therapists didn't seem to see beyond it.</p><p>Jane2</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jbrain, post: 58341, member: 3450"] Jo, With each new therapist for my difficult child 1 she would have to "work through" her father's death (he died when she was 8). It was frustrating to me because her problems started when she was about 3 yrs old--before her dad was sick and 5 yrs before he died. The therapists always seemed to latch on to this as the reason for all her problems. I guess I got pretty callous because I would tell her to get on with her life, got tired of her using her dad's death as an excuse and also as a way to avoid other things she needed to work on. She also would complain that she just didn't know why she couldn't get over it when both her brother and sister seemed to be able to. I don't mean to minimize the effect of his death on her but she sure milked it for all it was worth and the therapists didn't seem to see beyond it. Jane2 [/QUOTE]
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