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What came first? The chicken or the egg?
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 677851" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>What a beautiful and very wise post, Walrus. I agree with everything you say.</p><p></p><p>I too think a lot about the past. I think about how there have always been eccentric people. Those who choose to walk to their own drum. My grandparents left their families very early, my grandmother at 11, and never saw them again.</p><p></p><p>I expected my son to just "grow up." I did not know how that was supposed to happen. My son is my only child. It did not happen. He has not grown up like I expected. Instead he wants others to take responsibility for him and any adverse consequence he has.</p><p></p><p>I have come to believe the best thing for me is distance. I see small, incremental positive changes, but the default is still give an inch take a mile. Asking for money, food, assistance and care--while refusing to cooperate or reciprocate. Did I create this? I hope not. But I know now it is not my responsible to clean up or to fix. </p><p></p><p>I am his mother, but I am not his caretaker. The mother of an adult child: counsel, enduring love, telling the truth, moral authority. Not more.</p><p></p><p>COPA</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 677851, member: 18958"] What a beautiful and very wise post, Walrus. I agree with everything you say. I too think a lot about the past. I think about how there have always been eccentric people. Those who choose to walk to their own drum. My grandparents left their families very early, my grandmother at 11, and never saw them again. I expected my son to just "grow up." I did not know how that was supposed to happen. My son is my only child. It did not happen. He has not grown up like I expected. Instead he wants others to take responsibility for him and any adverse consequence he has. I have come to believe the best thing for me is distance. I see small, incremental positive changes, but the default is still give an inch take a mile. Asking for money, food, assistance and care--while refusing to cooperate or reciprocate. Did I create this? I hope not. But I know now it is not my responsible to clean up or to fix. I am his mother, but I am not his caretaker. The mother of an adult child: counsel, enduring love, telling the truth, moral authority. Not more. COPA [/QUOTE]
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