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<blockquote data-quote="CrazyinVA" data-source="post: 510612" data-attributes="member: 1157"><p>I still haven't read this book, need to add it to my shopping cart on Amazon. But I thought the same thing about the "shock" stage mentioned above. I don't remember any shock. I suspect it's because both my difficult children were difficult children from childhood, so watching them make horrendous mistakes in their adult lives wasn't exactly a shock. It was more of a disappointment that things weren't getting any better. </p><p></p><p>I've often though it's similar to a grief process. That's how my therapist has taught me to look at it, anyway. I have to grieve for the childhood they didn't have, the adult life they won't have, and now, for the lives my grandchildren won't have. None of it was, or is, exactly the "American Dream."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CrazyinVA, post: 510612, member: 1157"] I still haven't read this book, need to add it to my shopping cart on Amazon. But I thought the same thing about the "shock" stage mentioned above. I don't remember any shock. I suspect it's because both my difficult children were difficult children from childhood, so watching them make horrendous mistakes in their adult lives wasn't exactly a shock. It was more of a disappointment that things weren't getting any better. I've often though it's similar to a grief process. That's how my therapist has taught me to look at it, anyway. I have to grieve for the childhood they didn't have, the adult life they won't have, and now, for the lives my grandchildren won't have. None of it was, or is, exactly the "American Dream." [/QUOTE]
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