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<blockquote data-quote="rlsnights" data-source="post: 419520" data-attributes="member: 7948"><p>PS:</p><p></p><p>My response may seem "severe". It certainly sounds so in my own ears. But, having tried the incremental approach only to have it create a drawn out nightmare for months that still ended the same way - I would not do it again. I think it is not kind or gentle to try to help him see the error of his ways and let him stay while he gets "straightened out". If that was going to work it would have done so before now. He is 18 - not 12 or even 16 when that approach might still have been appropriate. This confrontation will happen sooner or later. You almost certainly are not going to be able to avoid it. In that case, why wait for him to dig himself into an even deeper hole and take the risk that he will destroy you financially and even possibly hurt you physically?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rlsnights, post: 419520, member: 7948"] PS: My response may seem "severe". It certainly sounds so in my own ears. But, having tried the incremental approach only to have it create a drawn out nightmare for months that still ended the same way - I would not do it again. I think it is not kind or gentle to try to help him see the error of his ways and let him stay while he gets "straightened out". If that was going to work it would have done so before now. He is 18 - not 12 or even 16 when that approach might still have been appropriate. This confrontation will happen sooner or later. You almost certainly are not going to be able to avoid it. In that case, why wait for him to dig himself into an even deeper hole and take the risk that he will destroy you financially and even possibly hurt you physically? [/QUOTE]
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