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Teary today...anyone else?
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<blockquote data-quote="DDD" data-source="post: 602698" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>Just noticing this thread again I realized that it has been awhile since I shared one of the most painful conversations I ever had with anyone. I don't recall (and don't want to "go there" too vividly) but I believe easy child/difficult child was 14 and I had been called to pick him up as he was "discharged" from the only really good quality rehab I had found for him. It was likely around seven in the evening when I got there to pick him up. As I waited his counselor sat with me and when I said "I just want to get my son back" he looked at me straight in my eyes and said "You are never going to get your old son back. He is gone for good. What you need to pray for is that he can change his ways and that the two of you can forge a new type of bond. He will never be innocent again." </p><p>That has haunted me for twelve years or so because that kind man was right. I have easy child/difficult child back but neither he nor I will be innocently bonded again. I'm so sorry that he ruined that for both of us.</p><p></p><p>on the other hand, I have a special small blanket of his in my dresser and every now and then it's put to use when I can't sleep and need to remember happier times. DDD</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DDD, post: 602698, member: 35"] Just noticing this thread again I realized that it has been awhile since I shared one of the most painful conversations I ever had with anyone. I don't recall (and don't want to "go there" too vividly) but I believe easy child/difficult child was 14 and I had been called to pick him up as he was "discharged" from the only really good quality rehab I had found for him. It was likely around seven in the evening when I got there to pick him up. As I waited his counselor sat with me and when I said "I just want to get my son back" he looked at me straight in my eyes and said "You are never going to get your old son back. He is gone for good. What you need to pray for is that he can change his ways and that the two of you can forge a new type of bond. He will never be innocent again." That has haunted me for twelve years or so because that kind man was right. I have easy child/difficult child back but neither he nor I will be innocently bonded again. I'm so sorry that he ruined that for both of us. on the other hand, I have a special small blanket of his in my dresser and every now and then it's put to use when I can't sleep and need to remember happier times. DDD [/QUOTE]
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