Okay, yeah, just trying to control things, got to stop that.
Yes I think in mys son's case it does actually empower him. Even with no contact from me in roughly a month and a half now. I think his emails, which go un-responded to, still give him some sense of empowerment.
That's good to know. As far as my son goes at one point I'm sure he could have turned things around, anymore, it doesn't seem so. But you never know.
I've stopped it for now by not answering or responding to calls, texts or emails for the last month and a half. And I have no plan for when that could possibly change. I'm not up for telling him I'll be around if he decides to act right towards me because I don't trust that it will be anything other than to draw me back in for more in short order. In his last email to me he informed me that he's "officially disowning" me along with a diatribe of all of my character flaws. I'm forwarding his emails to a folder one of my friends will read and tell me if there is anything I actually might need to know coming from him. He's blocked on my phone.
Thanks Copa!