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<blockquote data-quote="cebeast" data-source="post: 63065" data-attributes="member: 3918"><p>WeepingWillow -- thanks for your thoughts. I appreciate the spirit in which you share them. </p><p></p><p>To be clear, it wasn't so much a question of expecting to be able to say "he's 18 why is he still here" as much as wondering how life gets better. Or even if it gets better. Its about changing expectations, more precisely knowing what to expect. I was very comfortable in a world where I had a pretty good idea of what the milestones were in raising children. That somewhere along the line they would go off to college and that after a decade as a single parent life would get easier and be more about me.</p><p></p><p>I can already see this child's anger towards me rising steadily. There is no doubt in my mind that a 24/7 presence would make it much worse. For me, for everyone.</p><p></p><p>For now I see no alternative but patience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cebeast, post: 63065, member: 3918"] WeepingWillow -- thanks for your thoughts. I appreciate the spirit in which you share them. To be clear, it wasn't so much a question of expecting to be able to say "he's 18 why is he still here" as much as wondering how life gets better. Or even if it gets better. Its about changing expectations, more precisely knowing what to expect. I was very comfortable in a world where I had a pretty good idea of what the milestones were in raising children. That somewhere along the line they would go off to college and that after a decade as a single parent life would get easier and be more about me. I can already see this child's anger towards me rising steadily. There is no doubt in my mind that a 24/7 presence would make it much worse. For me, for everyone. For now I see no alternative but patience. [/QUOTE]
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