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<blockquote data-quote="JayPee" data-source="post: 757133" data-attributes="member: 23405"><p>I'm so sorry for your pain and suffering.</p><p></p><p>Just to share, I have never received a b-day card or mother's day card or present directly from my sons either. When they were younger my husband would get a card and present (sometimes) and they would sign it but not a card ever from either of them on their own. It hurts, I understand and it takes a lot of convincing ourselves but it's not us.</p><p></p><p>My younger son did always have trouble in school because of his ADHD and anxiety which wasn't diagnosed at the time but the older son was well behaved, never outspoken, never got in trouble. It was like a light switch turned on when they turned 18 yrs. old and things have never been the same. Much of what you've expressed going through has been my story too. My therapist had told me that often times when our children hit puberty and up to around 20 is the age they may begin experiencing personality disorders, anxiety and the like which often leads to drugs or alcohol use to cover what they can't control, which then as we all know, becomes an addiction.</p><p></p><p>That helped me to accept this a little bit better because like you I always thought it was something as a parent I did or didn't do but in reality it was something within them that manifested itself around that age.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JayPee, post: 757133, member: 23405"] I'm so sorry for your pain and suffering. Just to share, I have never received a b-day card or mother's day card or present directly from my sons either. When they were younger my husband would get a card and present (sometimes) and they would sign it but not a card ever from either of them on their own. It hurts, I understand and it takes a lot of convincing ourselves but it's not us. My younger son did always have trouble in school because of his ADHD and anxiety which wasn't diagnosed at the time but the older son was well behaved, never outspoken, never got in trouble. It was like a light switch turned on when they turned 18 yrs. old and things have never been the same. Much of what you've expressed going through has been my story too. My therapist had told me that often times when our children hit puberty and up to around 20 is the age they may begin experiencing personality disorders, anxiety and the like which often leads to drugs or alcohol use to cover what they can't control, which then as we all know, becomes an addiction. That helped me to accept this a little bit better because like you I always thought it was something as a parent I did or didn't do but in reality it was something within them that manifested itself around that age. [/QUOTE]
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