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<blockquote data-quote="RN0441" data-source="post: 755674" data-attributes="member: 15032"><p>200 Meters:</p><p></p><p>I so agree with your analogies. I also like the way you describe yourself and your thoughts on life before your son went off the rails. That sounds like how I would have described myself prior to this "experience". I always looked for the good in people. I wanted to move on quickly from unpleasant situations and just get on "being happy".</p><p></p><p>These experiences truly change us forever. I know that even after surviving an alcoholic mother, two divorces (happily married to #3 for 28 years this August) and many other deep dark things, the hell we went through with our son made everything else seem like child's play. </p><p></p><p>I will say now that I'm on the other side of the madness, I am so very proud that husband and I survived and that my son survived. My childhood friend lost her son to a heroin overdose in July. She used to come to me for advice because I was the only one she knew who had a child that was going off the rails with legal problems, drug use and anything else he could get his hands on. My son never used H thankfully and in some ways I think we prevented that because we were on him like flint all the time and it was purely exhausting for us. It may not have been from anything we even did but maybe my constant prayers were heard. I don't know.</p><p></p><p>The only thing that I wish now looking back is that I would have taken better care of myself through all of it. It is so good when it brings you closer to your spouse. It can tear marriages apart too. I think that it brought us closer to in the end.</p><p></p><p>I think that you have a great way of looking at it all and your humor is priceless. This too shall pass.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RN0441, post: 755674, member: 15032"] 200 Meters: I so agree with your analogies. I also like the way you describe yourself and your thoughts on life before your son went off the rails. That sounds like how I would have described myself prior to this "experience". I always looked for the good in people. I wanted to move on quickly from unpleasant situations and just get on "being happy". These experiences truly change us forever. I know that even after surviving an alcoholic mother, two divorces (happily married to #3 for 28 years this August) and many other deep dark things, the hell we went through with our son made everything else seem like child's play. I will say now that I'm on the other side of the madness, I am so very proud that husband and I survived and that my son survived. My childhood friend lost her son to a heroin overdose in July. She used to come to me for advice because I was the only one she knew who had a child that was going off the rails with legal problems, drug use and anything else he could get his hands on. My son never used H thankfully and in some ways I think we prevented that because we were on him like flint all the time and it was purely exhausting for us. It may not have been from anything we even did but maybe my constant prayers were heard. I don't know. The only thing that I wish now looking back is that I would have taken better care of myself through all of it. It is so good when it brings you closer to your spouse. It can tear marriages apart too. I think that it brought us closer to in the end. I think that you have a great way of looking at it all and your humor is priceless. This too shall pass. [/QUOTE]
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