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Contact with homeless son. Wants to visit and stay for couple of nights.
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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 622444" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>Yes and often things are moving so fast and the things that are happening are so unexpected and that I hadn't counted on (even tho I had a plan) that I can't think that fast. I am in mommy/heart mode.</p><p></p><p>I can't/don't say:</p><p></p><p>Whoa. Stop the presses. This is NOT what I agreed to.</p><p></p><p>Usually, I am scared, and his computer cord has broken, and his battery is dying with only three minutes left, and I am in major reaction mode as I am thinking, omgosh, I will never be able to contact him again, so let's make decisions. </p><p></p><p>I wish I could learn this: </p><p></p><p>Whenever I am in reaction mode, that is not a good place from which to act. Every time. </p><p></p><p>Whenever I am scared to death, I need to take a break. </p><p></p><p>I need to give it an hour, a half day, a day, a week...something.</p><p></p><p>Another signpost up ahead on the road to try to get to. And remembering that it's okay to make mistakes. Because I'm going to make a LOT of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 622444, member: 17542"] Yes and often things are moving so fast and the things that are happening are so unexpected and that I hadn't counted on (even tho I had a plan) that I can't think that fast. I am in mommy/heart mode. I can't/don't say: Whoa. Stop the presses. This is NOT what I agreed to. Usually, I am scared, and his computer cord has broken, and his battery is dying with only three minutes left, and I am in major reaction mode as I am thinking, omgosh, I will never be able to contact him again, so let's make decisions. I wish I could learn this: Whenever I am in reaction mode, that is not a good place from which to act. Every time. Whenever I am scared to death, I need to take a break. I need to give it an hour, a half day, a day, a week...something. Another signpost up ahead on the road to try to get to. And remembering that it's okay to make mistakes. Because I'm going to make a LOT of them. [/QUOTE]
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