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Update: The waters of de Nile are calm.
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<blockquote data-quote="AppleCori" data-source="post: 655164" data-attributes="member: 16024"><p>Lil'</p><p></p><p>All joking aside (and there's still plenty of jokes in this one!) your young man is making strides.</p><p></p><p>After a few months of living in his tiny apartment, no job, trying to make you feel sorry for his 'baby' self,(which didn't work!!!! as far as he knows) he has finally started to make some plans to move forward with his life.</p><p></p><p> He is actively looking for work, found a place to live come June 1st ON HIS OWN (even if it is a sorta unconventional situation) thinking long-term about saving his $ for an apartment, realizing how his shoplifting episode is going to affect his future and how to deal with it, and basically starting to take control of his life!</p><p></p><p>He is seeing himself as a competent, self-supporting, grown-up individual who is responsible for his own life. THIS IS HUGE!!!!</p><p></p><p>Will it be two steps forward, one step back? Probably.</p><p></p><p>Will he try to get you to rescue him at some point by acting like a child, sabotaging his successes, appealing to your mommy instincts? Maybe. OK, probably.</p><p></p><p>But it won't work anymore.</p><p></p><p>And he will come through this and all of lifes' challenges and be a better, stronger man for it all.</p><p></p><p>I believe it.</p><p></p><p>So do you.</p><p></p><p>Tell him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AppleCori, post: 655164, member: 16024"] Lil' All joking aside (and there's still plenty of jokes in this one!) your young man is making strides. After a few months of living in his tiny apartment, no job, trying to make you feel sorry for his 'baby' self,(which didn't work!!!! as far as he knows) he has finally started to make some plans to move forward with his life. He is actively looking for work, found a place to live come June 1st ON HIS OWN (even if it is a sorta unconventional situation) thinking long-term about saving his $ for an apartment, realizing how his shoplifting episode is going to affect his future and how to deal with it, and basically starting to take control of his life! He is seeing himself as a competent, self-supporting, grown-up individual who is responsible for his own life. THIS IS HUGE!!!! Will it be two steps forward, one step back? Probably. Will he try to get you to rescue him at some point by acting like a child, sabotaging his successes, appealing to your mommy instincts? Maybe. OK, probably. But it won't work anymore. And he will come through this and all of lifes' challenges and be a better, stronger man for it all. I believe it. So do you. Tell him. [/QUOTE]
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