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They don't get what they put us through....
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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 687193" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>Totally agree. They have no idea what we go through when they are living their lives in a destructive way. It rips our heart out. He is right though, he is going through h*ll inside. He doesn't want to be this way and yet he can't stop. I tried to understand this when my daughter was at her worst and living in a heroin addicts basement, drinking/using pot 24/7. When she finally got out of that situation she told me it was awful. I asked why she just didn't stop and she said she couldn't, she knew how but she couldn't, she had too many demons in her telling her to keep going. She said that when she drank and smoked she felt good and when she didn't drink/smoke she felt awful, she couldn't live with herself unless she was numb. I don;t know if it's the same for your son but I suspect he likes being numb and not thinking about how cr*ppy his life is. It's hard for us to understand because we don't have those same demons. He sees your actions as vindictive because you won't help him to continue numbing the pain. You see it as saving his life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 687193, member: 59"] Totally agree. They have no idea what we go through when they are living their lives in a destructive way. It rips our heart out. He is right though, he is going through h*ll inside. He doesn't want to be this way and yet he can't stop. I tried to understand this when my daughter was at her worst and living in a heroin addicts basement, drinking/using pot 24/7. When she finally got out of that situation she told me it was awful. I asked why she just didn't stop and she said she couldn't, she knew how but she couldn't, she had too many demons in her telling her to keep going. She said that when she drank and smoked she felt good and when she didn't drink/smoke she felt awful, she couldn't live with herself unless she was numb. I don;t know if it's the same for your son but I suspect he likes being numb and not thinking about how cr*ppy his life is. It's hard for us to understand because we don't have those same demons. He sees your actions as vindictive because you won't help him to continue numbing the pain. You see it as saving his life. [/QUOTE]
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