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<blockquote data-quote="Tanya M" data-source="post: 653842" data-attributes="member: 18516"><p>Weary, I'm so glad you had a good, fun evening.</p><p></p><p>You are doing so well in accepting and letting go of your daughter's life choices. You are taking your life back and living in the moment and that is a healthy thing to do.</p><p></p><p></p><p>As I've said before, I've been doing this for 20 years with my son and while I successfully detached a long time ago and have gone on to live my life there is always an underlying sadness in my heart. I will always have hope that someday he will turn his life around but I have learned to not give to much energy to that as you can be sucked back in. There have been numerous times over the years that I thought my son was making some positive changes only to find out he was scamming me, playing a role, letting me see what I wanted to see. Each time having to go through the whole detachment process again and all the pain that goes with it. Oh how I wish I would have known about this forum then!!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I can so relate to this. For me it happens at Christmas when I'm decorating the tree. I open up our box of ornaments and there are ornaments that my son made back when he was that sweet loving little boy. It always makes me take pause. I don't put the ornaments on the tree anymore, haven't for years, it's just hurts to much.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And this is all you can do.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/33/Easy Child/05/33ec054a6eb308ce93a109960d7fdcba.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tanya M, post: 653842, member: 18516"] Weary, I'm so glad you had a good, fun evening. You are doing so well in accepting and letting go of your daughter's life choices. You are taking your life back and living in the moment and that is a healthy thing to do. As I've said before, I've been doing this for 20 years with my son and while I successfully detached a long time ago and have gone on to live my life there is always an underlying sadness in my heart. I will always have hope that someday he will turn his life around but I have learned to not give to much energy to that as you can be sucked back in. There have been numerous times over the years that I thought my son was making some positive changes only to find out he was scamming me, playing a role, letting me see what I wanted to see. Each time having to go through the whole detachment process again and all the pain that goes with it. Oh how I wish I would have known about this forum then!! I can so relate to this. For me it happens at Christmas when I'm decorating the tree. I open up our box of ornaments and there are ornaments that my son made back when he was that sweet loving little boy. It always makes me take pause. I don't put the ornaments on the tree anymore, haven't for years, it's just hurts to much. And this is all you can do. [IMG]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/33/Easy Child/05/33ec054a6eb308ce93a109960d7fdcba.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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