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Email from difficult child-- do I (how) respond?
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<blockquote data-quote="Echolette" data-source="post: 619211" data-attributes="member: 17269"><p>PLease ignore the emails from your parents. They are just the venting of frustrated dysfunctional folks. Leave them alone, don't escalate, don't engage.</p><p>As for your son...I agree with the gang...very very manipulative, very nastily blaming of you, suggesting that you have all kinds of awful subterranean defects that he is gently willing to help you uncover.</p><p>Give me a frieking break.</p><p>After you have a chance to think it over...maybe a very simple, short reply. You can thank him for the thoughtful email. Tell him you would like to talk things over with him at some point in the future, when he has gotten his life together and you've both had time to think through this period. Then tell him you love him and sign off.</p><p></p><p>I wouldn't engage or escalate any of the conversations.</p><p></p><p>I'm sorry you are in the thick of it like this....I will say, though, time never hurt anything. He will need time away from your protective cloak to get better, or declare himself. You need time away from him to figure out who you are. Take your time. DOn't engage in back and forth and arguments. You are doing fine, right now, today.</p><p></p><p>Hugs,</p><p>Echo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Echolette, post: 619211, member: 17269"] PLease ignore the emails from your parents. They are just the venting of frustrated dysfunctional folks. Leave them alone, don't escalate, don't engage. As for your son...I agree with the gang...very very manipulative, very nastily blaming of you, suggesting that you have all kinds of awful subterranean defects that he is gently willing to help you uncover. Give me a frieking break. After you have a chance to think it over...maybe a very simple, short reply. You can thank him for the thoughtful email. Tell him you would like to talk things over with him at some point in the future, when he has gotten his life together and you've both had time to think through this period. Then tell him you love him and sign off. I wouldn't engage or escalate any of the conversations. I'm sorry you are in the thick of it like this....I will say, though, time never hurt anything. He will need time away from your protective cloak to get better, or declare himself. You need time away from him to figure out who you are. Take your time. DOn't engage in back and forth and arguments. You are doing fine, right now, today. Hugs, Echo [/QUOTE]
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