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Staying detached while tethered....
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<blockquote data-quote="Roxona" data-source="post: 687937" data-attributes="member: 19076"><p>RN, your son and mine are one in the same, except in some ways I wish he was in living sober and not at home! J doesn't like NA because he doesn't want to listen to all the "losers" beat a dead horse about their "sorry lives". ...Yet, that is exactly what I get to hear on an almost daily basis here with him at home. The negativity is so thick you can cut it with a knife. I do exactly was Praecepta does...I listen for five minutes, offer my sympathies, tell him I love him and I hope he has a better day, and walk away...or tell him I need to get into the shower or I need to run some errands. If I don't, I'll get sucked into hours and hours of nonstop negative nonsense and then spend the rest of the day stewing in my son's misery.</p><p></p><p>My advice is simple (well at least for me)...stand by your boundaries and limit your contact with him. If he starts off on a negative tangent, tell him you will talk to him later when he is feeling more positive.</p><p></p><p>(((HUGS)))</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roxona, post: 687937, member: 19076"] RN, your son and mine are one in the same, except in some ways I wish he was in living sober and not at home! J doesn't like NA because he doesn't want to listen to all the "losers" beat a dead horse about their "sorry lives". ...Yet, that is exactly what I get to hear on an almost daily basis here with him at home. The negativity is so thick you can cut it with a knife. I do exactly was Praecepta does...I listen for five minutes, offer my sympathies, tell him I love him and I hope he has a better day, and walk away...or tell him I need to get into the shower or I need to run some errands. If I don't, I'll get sucked into hours and hours of nonstop negative nonsense and then spend the rest of the day stewing in my son's misery. My advice is simple (well at least for me)...stand by your boundaries and limit your contact with him. If he starts off on a negative tangent, tell him you will talk to him later when he is feeling more positive. (((HUGS))) [/QUOTE]
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