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Son called to be picked up from a dangerous situation-I refused. Sorry-VERY long!
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<blockquote data-quote="nerfherder" data-source="post: 596571" data-attributes="member: 15907"><p>Blackgnat,</p><p></p><p>I had a cousin much like your son. He did eventually OD at age 29, and it was hard on the whole family - hardest I think on the ones who stayed in denial all those years and continued to stay there even after he died - one aunt refused to ever speak the words "he died of a heroin overdose" instead insisting he died of cancer. </p><p></p><p>And thanks to the way his mom (really his stepmom) handled it, I never spoke to her again. It was the rest of us cousins and functional aunts who tried to get him into a rehab facility towards the end, since he was no longer able to make his own decisions, and we just couldn't get to him in time.</p><p></p><p>I think his apparent honesty, and your staying detached much as you can, are the healthiest ways to manage for both of you. My cousin, even in his worst moments, never stopped loving his family, and told me so. Had the rest of all his mom and dad's generation been less in denial and more in touch with reality, maybe things would have been different.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nerfherder, post: 596571, member: 15907"] Blackgnat, I had a cousin much like your son. He did eventually OD at age 29, and it was hard on the whole family - hardest I think on the ones who stayed in denial all those years and continued to stay there even after he died - one aunt refused to ever speak the words "he died of a heroin overdose" instead insisting he died of cancer. And thanks to the way his mom (really his stepmom) handled it, I never spoke to her again. It was the rest of us cousins and functional aunts who tried to get him into a rehab facility towards the end, since he was no longer able to make his own decisions, and we just couldn't get to him in time. I think his apparent honesty, and your staying detached much as you can, are the healthiest ways to manage for both of you. My cousin, even in his worst moments, never stopped loving his family, and told me so. Had the rest of all his mom and dad's generation been less in denial and more in touch with reality, maybe things would have been different. [/QUOTE]
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