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Third time is NOT the charm
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 693959" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>mtndenise, I did pretty much the same. Tossed our daughter with nothing. She managed to talk Goneboy, who was still close to her and in the family then, into letting her live in his basement. He wasnt happy and had a laundry list of things she could not do and one strike you're out.</p><p></p><p>Her last words to me were, "I will hate you forever!!!!" I cried for three weeks, day and night.</p><p></p><p>But nobody gave her a dime or a car and Goneboy demanded rent and that she work or she would have used up her one strike. She walked to and from Subway in a Chicago winter. She didnt smoke. Goneboy was cigarette intolerant anywhere on his property and was mean enough to throw her out if he got a wiff of smoke. She quit using. I dont know how she did it. No rehab. No AA. But her main drugs of choice, meth and other forms of speed, perhaps are not physically addictive</p><p></p><p>All the progress we had begged her to make while living with us, she made when she was one cigarette inhalation away from homelessness in Chicago, away from us.</p><p></p><p>We got our daughter back...Alive and functional. She gained back all the weight she had lost on speed. When she left, she looked like warmed over death. It is good yo see her healthy and in sync with life and social norms.</p><p></p><p>We, as parents, have our own rock bottom too...when we can't watch or fund the destruction anymore. when we know it is hurting, not helping. Helping is unhelpful to drug users. it makes us as parents feel better, that is all.</p><p></p><p>Cry all you need. We are here to put our arms sround you. Praying for a happy ending. Be good to yourself. None of this did this lightly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 693959, member: 1550"] mtndenise, I did pretty much the same. Tossed our daughter with nothing. She managed to talk Goneboy, who was still close to her and in the family then, into letting her live in his basement. He wasnt happy and had a laundry list of things she could not do and one strike you're out. Her last words to me were, "I will hate you forever!!!!" I cried for three weeks, day and night. But nobody gave her a dime or a car and Goneboy demanded rent and that she work or she would have used up her one strike. She walked to and from Subway in a Chicago winter. She didnt smoke. Goneboy was cigarette intolerant anywhere on his property and was mean enough to throw her out if he got a wiff of smoke. She quit using. I dont know how she did it. No rehab. No AA. But her main drugs of choice, meth and other forms of speed, perhaps are not physically addictive All the progress we had begged her to make while living with us, she made when she was one cigarette inhalation away from homelessness in Chicago, away from us. We got our daughter back...Alive and functional. She gained back all the weight she had lost on speed. When she left, she looked like warmed over death. It is good yo see her healthy and in sync with life and social norms. We, as parents, have our own rock bottom too...when we can't watch or fund the destruction anymore. when we know it is hurting, not helping. Helping is unhelpful to drug users. it makes us as parents feel better, that is all. Cry all you need. We are here to put our arms sround you. Praying for a happy ending. Be good to yourself. None of this did this lightly. [/QUOTE]
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