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Sometimes Radical Acceptance = Stepping Back
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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 643255" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p>It's good to hear from you HLM, I have been thinking about you.</p><p></p><p>As usual your post speaks of acceptance, compassion for your difficult child and yourselves, understanding and humor........... and as a result, the peacefulness one finds there. I applaud your resilience in the face of adversity..............it could certainly be called grace under fire..............</p><p></p><p>There seem to be these reminders of our need to keep that radical acceptance vigil. The other day my daughter texted me that the woman whom she had been staying with locked the doors and wouldn't let her back in on Christmas evening after we dropped her off. It was in the 30's that night. There is more to the story, but I don't feel like expanding that thinking..........suffice to say it was a bit of a drama created by the characters my daughter hangs out with. I had that all too familiar feeling in my mothers heart of anxiety about the weather and where she would end up. I talked to my husband (a wonderful husband, much like you describe yours) and he of course, said, "I will be okay with whatever you decide to do." I decided to step back. A couple of years ago I would not have been able to do that, OR I would have suffered greatly doing it. Instead, I read some inspirational books and went to bed. The next day she texted me telling me she had found a place to stay, at least for that night, actually with a friend of hers whom I know to be a really good guy. So, she worked it out without my stepping in. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Very well said HLM.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 643255, member: 13542"] It's good to hear from you HLM, I have been thinking about you. As usual your post speaks of acceptance, compassion for your difficult child and yourselves, understanding and humor........... and as a result, the peacefulness one finds there. I applaud your resilience in the face of adversity..............it could certainly be called grace under fire.............. There seem to be these reminders of our need to keep that radical acceptance vigil. The other day my daughter texted me that the woman whom she had been staying with locked the doors and wouldn't let her back in on Christmas evening after we dropped her off. It was in the 30's that night. There is more to the story, but I don't feel like expanding that thinking..........suffice to say it was a bit of a drama created by the characters my daughter hangs out with. I had that all too familiar feeling in my mothers heart of anxiety about the weather and where she would end up. I talked to my husband (a wonderful husband, much like you describe yours) and he of course, said, "I will be okay with whatever you decide to do." I decided to step back. A couple of years ago I would not have been able to do that, OR I would have suffered greatly doing it. Instead, I read some inspirational books and went to bed. The next day she texted me telling me she had found a place to stay, at least for that night, actually with a friend of hers whom I know to be a really good guy. So, she worked it out without my stepping in. Very well said HLM. [/QUOTE]
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