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Update on difficult child who recently moved out. Could it be?
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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 620445" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>Sabine, keep coming back. One of the norms in recovery is: Take what you like and leave the rest.</p><p></p><p>And respect for all becomes a key as we all hurt and grow and change, and fall back and make progress.</p><p></p><p>Each of us can only do what he/she feels is right. We all have to look in the mirror every day. We have all been where we have been and are where we are today, inch by inch by inch and by the grace of God.</p><p></p><p>Four years ago, it was completely unthinkable to me that my son would ever be homeless. "Not while I had a roof over my head myself." Not gonna happen. You'll see on other threads that I turned him away in the middle of the night Saturday night. Again. </p><p></p><p>Sabine, you can't know the horror of living with active addiction of your precious child---now an adult---under your own roof. It is impossible to fully know it until you live it.</p><p></p><p>And I pray you never do. </p><p></p><p>I remember sitting in Al-Anon and hearing other mothers talk about telling their adult children not to contact them anymore. Privately, secretly, I thought to myself: I will never do that. There is never a situation that will come when I will do that.</p><p></p><p>And I haven't. Yet. But Sabine, today I don't say never anymore. My son, with his actions and his persistent self-destructive behaviors, has taught me that. </p><p> </p><p>You are welcome here. But never say never.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 620445, member: 17542"] Sabine, keep coming back. One of the norms in recovery is: Take what you like and leave the rest. And respect for all becomes a key as we all hurt and grow and change, and fall back and make progress. Each of us can only do what he/she feels is right. We all have to look in the mirror every day. We have all been where we have been and are where we are today, inch by inch by inch and by the grace of God. Four years ago, it was completely unthinkable to me that my son would ever be homeless. "Not while I had a roof over my head myself." Not gonna happen. You'll see on other threads that I turned him away in the middle of the night Saturday night. Again. Sabine, you can't know the horror of living with active addiction of your precious child---now an adult---under your own roof. It is impossible to fully know it until you live it. And I pray you never do. I remember sitting in Al-Anon and hearing other mothers talk about telling their adult children not to contact them anymore. Privately, secretly, I thought to myself: I will never do that. There is never a situation that will come when I will do that. And I haven't. Yet. But Sabine, today I don't say never anymore. My son, with his actions and his persistent self-destructive behaviors, has taught me that. You are welcome here. But never say never. [/QUOTE]
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