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<blockquote data-quote="Sherril2000" data-source="post: 649898" data-attributes="member: 18767"><p>Thank you both so much for your replies. I'm learning, I really am. I was always very overprotective of all my kids, never wanting anything bad to happen to them. When I look back on my sons past, I realize I tried to protect him too much. My son -in-law, who served time in Juvenile detention years ago, recently told me he experienced much the same situation with- his grandmother. He told me she always loved him unconditionally, just like I do my son. She would bail him out, pay for his attorney fees... Sadly, she passed away. After that, he had no one but himself. I'm proud to say he straightened up, & has become a good husband & father. He warned me my son sees me the same way he saw his grandmother. He thinks I will get him out of whatever trouble he gets into. I definitely see the error of my ways. I'm working hard to set boundaries, & he will have to sign a behavioral contract & abide by it if he wants to live with- me when he gets out. I just have always been so afraid of what he would do if I didn't give in to him. I know now things will only get worse if I continue to enable him. My 15 year old daughter told me tonight he actually brags to her that he's my favorite, & he can manipulate me into doing whatever he wants. I have been such a fool.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sherril2000, post: 649898, member: 18767"] Thank you both so much for your replies. I'm learning, I really am. I was always very overprotective of all my kids, never wanting anything bad to happen to them. When I look back on my sons past, I realize I tried to protect him too much. My son -in-law, who served time in Juvenile detention years ago, recently told me he experienced much the same situation with- his grandmother. He told me she always loved him unconditionally, just like I do my son. She would bail him out, pay for his attorney fees... Sadly, she passed away. After that, he had no one but himself. I'm proud to say he straightened up, & has become a good husband & father. He warned me my son sees me the same way he saw his grandmother. He thinks I will get him out of whatever trouble he gets into. I definitely see the error of my ways. I'm working hard to set boundaries, & he will have to sign a behavioral contract & abide by it if he wants to live with- me when he gets out. I just have always been so afraid of what he would do if I didn't give in to him. I know now things will only get worse if I continue to enable him. My 15 year old daughter told me tonight he actually brags to her that he's my favorite, & he can manipulate me into doing whatever he wants. I have been such a fool. [/QUOTE]
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