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<blockquote data-quote="Irene_J" data-source="post: 75432" data-attributes="member: 181"><p>My difficult child is 19 and I can say that I both love her and like her. But that's now. Between the ages of 13-16, I was counting the years/months/days before I could get her out of my house.</p><p></p><p>She stole from me and shoplifted, became sexually active, skipped classes, was expelled, was still a freshman when she should have been a junior, attempted suicide, self-mutilated (cutter), ran away, associated with criminals, was involved with policy activity and made my life miserable.</p><p></p><p>I never stopped trying to help her; but I accepted that I might not be able to help her. </p><p></p><p>Once when I posted on this board after something terrible happened, I said that she was flushing her life down the toilet and that my life was going down too. A couple of people replied that I had to live my own life, even if my difficult child was destroying hers. They were right.</p><p></p><p>Now she attends community college, works part time and lives at home. She wants to transfer to a 4 year college within the next 2 years and live in a college dorm.</p><p></p><p>Although it took a tremendous effort to get to this point, the origin of it came from my difficult child. When she decided to change her life, that's when it happened.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Irene_J, post: 75432, member: 181"] My difficult child is 19 and I can say that I both love her and like her. But that's now. Between the ages of 13-16, I was counting the years/months/days before I could get her out of my house. She stole from me and shoplifted, became sexually active, skipped classes, was expelled, was still a freshman when she should have been a junior, attempted suicide, self-mutilated (cutter), ran away, associated with criminals, was involved with policy activity and made my life miserable. I never stopped trying to help her; but I accepted that I might not be able to help her. Once when I posted on this board after something terrible happened, I said that she was flushing her life down the toilet and that my life was going down too. A couple of people replied that I had to live my own life, even if my difficult child was destroying hers. They were right. Now she attends community college, works part time and lives at home. She wants to transfer to a 4 year college within the next 2 years and live in a college dorm. Although it took a tremendous effort to get to this point, the origin of it came from my difficult child. When she decided to change her life, that's when it happened. [/QUOTE]
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