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Update on difficult child -we are in Colorado and it just went pear-shaped...
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<blockquote data-quote="blackgnat" data-source="post: 598468" data-attributes="member: 13561"><p>Just to add-my difficult child is 24-WAY old enough to start and figure it all out. </p><p></p><p>And to the posters who said I have probably been expecting the outcome of difficult child reverting to type here in CO. You are right. I try to be as optimistic as possible, but I really don't expect a happy ending for my child. I think he will take the path that he thinks is the easiest-drinking and drugging to escape reality. Selling his body instead of flipping burgers for minimum wage. It's what he knows and what he chooses. Not the choices I would make but I'm not him. Though I've tried to make him think like ME! It has never worked.</p><p></p><p>And taking him back with me to Illinois is absolutely NOT an option. There is nothing there for him. Coming out here gives him an incredible opportunity to make a fresh start and he knew before he got in my car that there would be no turning back. If he can't make a go of this, then he can't do it anywhere. Which honestly I think is the truth. He probably won't and probably can't. I'll never tell him that, of course. But he has tremendous resources at his disposal here in Colorado. Plus family members who will help establish him and then let him fly. If he doesn't get that he is very lucky and effs it up anyway, then so be it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blackgnat, post: 598468, member: 13561"] Just to add-my difficult child is 24-WAY old enough to start and figure it all out. And to the posters who said I have probably been expecting the outcome of difficult child reverting to type here in CO. You are right. I try to be as optimistic as possible, but I really don't expect a happy ending for my child. I think he will take the path that he thinks is the easiest-drinking and drugging to escape reality. Selling his body instead of flipping burgers for minimum wage. It's what he knows and what he chooses. Not the choices I would make but I'm not him. Though I've tried to make him think like ME! It has never worked. And taking him back with me to Illinois is absolutely NOT an option. There is nothing there for him. Coming out here gives him an incredible opportunity to make a fresh start and he knew before he got in my car that there would be no turning back. If he can't make a go of this, then he can't do it anywhere. Which honestly I think is the truth. He probably won't and probably can't. I'll never tell him that, of course. But he has tremendous resources at his disposal here in Colorado. Plus family members who will help establish him and then let him fly. If he doesn't get that he is very lucky and effs it up anyway, then so be it. [/QUOTE]
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