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9M difficult child... I'm wearing thin fast.
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<blockquote data-quote="Aimless" data-source="post: 613759" data-attributes="member: 17346"><p>I TOTALLY agree with you, MidwestMom, about the need for honesty and transparency in getting real about what it is really like for some of these kids. I used to teach and recruit foster parents and now after ten years experience working with these families and so many of their heartbreaking experiences just trying to love a child and make them whole again. I had to quit because I just feel too brutally honest and want to share the truth when people ask about how bad it can get. </p><p></p><p>I feel angry and frustrated because I feel like I could benefit from some therapy for myself so that I can be the best mom, wife, and friend but I also know that it has been my experience that if I even shared a fraction of the truth and facts that I have shared in the past 2 days with all of you on this wonderful website, I would be condemned as being a cold hearted, evil mother who never should have adopted our difficult child, if I wasn't up to the task. Love does not conquer all. Love gets you thru the hard times. And sometimes love hurts when it says good-bye for the right reasons. I can absolutely say that I would place difficult child in a Residential Treatment Center (RTC) without a second thought. I think that I might be able to do it today, just knowing what I already know. And I'll do it if I have to. husband will have a harder time but he's not here standing in the gap, I am.</p><p></p><p>On a side note, Dr. Phil has a family on today who say they wish they had never adopted their adult son. Should be interesting...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aimless, post: 613759, member: 17346"] I TOTALLY agree with you, MidwestMom, about the need for honesty and transparency in getting real about what it is really like for some of these kids. I used to teach and recruit foster parents and now after ten years experience working with these families and so many of their heartbreaking experiences just trying to love a child and make them whole again. I had to quit because I just feel too brutally honest and want to share the truth when people ask about how bad it can get. I feel angry and frustrated because I feel like I could benefit from some therapy for myself so that I can be the best mom, wife, and friend but I also know that it has been my experience that if I even shared a fraction of the truth and facts that I have shared in the past 2 days with all of you on this wonderful website, I would be condemned as being a cold hearted, evil mother who never should have adopted our difficult child, if I wasn't up to the task. Love does not conquer all. Love gets you thru the hard times. And sometimes love hurts when it says good-bye for the right reasons. I can absolutely say that I would place difficult child in a Residential Treatment Center (RTC) without a second thought. I think that I might be able to do it today, just knowing what I already know. And I'll do it if I have to. husband will have a harder time but he's not here standing in the gap, I am. On a side note, Dr. Phil has a family on today who say they wish they had never adopted their adult son. Should be interesting... [/QUOTE]
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