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<blockquote data-quote="toughlovin" data-source="post: 694624" data-attributes="member: 15801"><p>Thanks for all your comments it helps. My son has not called me back and to be honest I am kind of relieved. I think he got from our conversation yesterday that I am not anxious to help him right now so hopefully he is figuring things out. I have no idea. I am not contacting him either. I hope I can stay strong when that desperate call comes. I do know we have been there and been there for him, helped him over and over and over again and it has not helped so it is time to stop doing the same old thing. </p><p></p><p>RN I don't think my son would go to a shelter. He has spent time on the streets and does not like the shelters and I know a lot of homeless folks do not like shelters for various reasons. So if he ends up homeless he will probably be on the streets again. I dread that but it may be what needs to happen. I don't know. </p><p></p><p>I totally get that right now I can't give him any access to money because he will use it for drugs or alcohol and I don't want to supply his addiction. What is harder for me to know is how I will react if things get bad enough and he wants to go back into treatment. I think my response will be he has to figure it out, and there are people he can call for advice ....he made some good contacts with some very caring folks at his last treatment place. I think I need to not be involved in figuring it out..... His history is that he uses treatment to come in out of the cold.... but as he has shown that doesn't mean he is serious about recovery.... but how will I know he is serious? I don't think I can know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toughlovin, post: 694624, member: 15801"] Thanks for all your comments it helps. My son has not called me back and to be honest I am kind of relieved. I think he got from our conversation yesterday that I am not anxious to help him right now so hopefully he is figuring things out. I have no idea. I am not contacting him either. I hope I can stay strong when that desperate call comes. I do know we have been there and been there for him, helped him over and over and over again and it has not helped so it is time to stop doing the same old thing. RN I don't think my son would go to a shelter. He has spent time on the streets and does not like the shelters and I know a lot of homeless folks do not like shelters for various reasons. So if he ends up homeless he will probably be on the streets again. I dread that but it may be what needs to happen. I don't know. I totally get that right now I can't give him any access to money because he will use it for drugs or alcohol and I don't want to supply his addiction. What is harder for me to know is how I will react if things get bad enough and he wants to go back into treatment. I think my response will be he has to figure it out, and there are people he can call for advice ....he made some good contacts with some very caring folks at his last treatment place. I think I need to not be involved in figuring it out..... His history is that he uses treatment to come in out of the cold.... but as he has shown that doesn't mean he is serious about recovery.... but how will I know he is serious? I don't think I can know. [/QUOTE]
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