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<blockquote data-quote="RN0441" data-source="post: 744503" data-attributes="member: 15032"><p>Many of us have done tough love and for many of us it didn't work. Or it takes years and years for it to work. It's tough to keep hitting the tough love. It is very hard work to go against what a mom normally does for her child. Very very hard work.</p><p></p><p>My childhood friend's nephew just died from a heroin overdose a few months ago in his very own bed in his very own room. I had talked to his mom (my friend's younger sister; I grew up with the family living next door) about NOT getting him out of jail time and time again and NOT letting him live there. Yes it's hard. I had my own struggles and tried my very best to tell her she was enabling him. She knew my son was struggling with pills. She wanted my help. She wanted my advice. But she didn't take it. It was too hard.</p><p></p><p>Now he's gone. It doesn't matter anymore that she really didn't get what I was saying. It was easier to not kick him out and she felt less guilty by not letting him sit in jail.</p><p></p><p>That could have been my son. I am thankful to God that I had the strength not to enable him to death.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RN0441, post: 744503, member: 15032"] Many of us have done tough love and for many of us it didn't work. Or it takes years and years for it to work. It's tough to keep hitting the tough love. It is very hard work to go against what a mom normally does for her child. Very very hard work. My childhood friend's nephew just died from a heroin overdose a few months ago in his very own bed in his very own room. I had talked to his mom (my friend's younger sister; I grew up with the family living next door) about NOT getting him out of jail time and time again and NOT letting him live there. Yes it's hard. I had my own struggles and tried my very best to tell her she was enabling him. She knew my son was struggling with pills. She wanted my help. She wanted my advice. But she didn't take it. It was too hard. Now he's gone. It doesn't matter anymore that she really didn't get what I was saying. It was easier to not kick him out and she felt less guilty by not letting him sit in jail. That could have been my son. I am thankful to God that I had the strength not to enable him to death. [/QUOTE]
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