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<blockquote data-quote="JayPee" data-source="post: 758524" data-attributes="member: 23405"><p>Trying,</p><p></p><p>I see so much of my "past" self in your postings. I was married for 30 yrs. to an alcoholic. We think they are they only ones who are "sick" from the disease and it's not true! We have slowly but surely enmeshed ourselves so much in the alcoholic's life that the lines become blurred as to what's their responsibility and what is ours... where their breath ends and ours begins. Trust me until you step off the merry-go-round and begin to take baby steps to care for yourself you will never find where you begin and your son ends. As mentioned in prior posts from others, you have become addicted to your sons "life" with all that it entails. You are in a fog and you need to reach for the life-line people are sending you through their posts. We have lived what you are going through and we know how blind we were.</p><p></p><p>Trust us...even just a little bit to set some boundaries that are realistic to you but that will even for a day push you in the right direction and motivate you to keep going in that direction. You need to come up for air and love yourself even an ounce as much as you love your son so that you will begin to care for yourself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JayPee, post: 758524, member: 23405"] Trying, I see so much of my "past" self in your postings. I was married for 30 yrs. to an alcoholic. We think they are they only ones who are "sick" from the disease and it's not true! We have slowly but surely enmeshed ourselves so much in the alcoholic's life that the lines become blurred as to what's their responsibility and what is ours... where their breath ends and ours begins. Trust me until you step off the merry-go-round and begin to take baby steps to care for yourself you will never find where you begin and your son ends. As mentioned in prior posts from others, you have become addicted to your sons "life" with all that it entails. You are in a fog and you need to reach for the life-line people are sending you through their posts. We have lived what you are going through and we know how blind we were. Trust us...even just a little bit to set some boundaries that are realistic to you but that will even for a day push you in the right direction and motivate you to keep going in that direction. You need to come up for air and love yourself even an ounce as much as you love your son so that you will begin to care for yourself. [/QUOTE]
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