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<blockquote data-quote="Albatross" data-source="post: 733830" data-attributes="member: 17720"><p>Great responses.</p><p></p><p>You will find many success stories in here. They're very skewed toward parents who finally decided to stop "helping" their difficult adult children, and then things got better.</p><p></p><p>Getting to that point is a long road. For us it was a LOOOONNNNGGGG road. Even our early efforts at *NOT* helping were focused more on how we thought *HE* would react than on our own needs and feelings.</p><p></p><p>It wasn't until we took the focus off him and put it back on us (where it belongs) that things got better. Better for us, then better for him, because it finally forced him to face his situation honestly.</p><p></p><p>That being said, even if things had not gotten better for my son, I would still call our story a success story. So many of my days were spent swinging wildly from frantic to hopeful to hopeless and back again because of something I had no control over. Now I have my joy back, regardless of my son's choices.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Albatross, post: 733830, member: 17720"] Great responses. You will find many success stories in here. They're very skewed toward parents who finally decided to stop "helping" their difficult adult children, and then things got better. Getting to that point is a long road. For us it was a LOOOONNNNGGGG road. Even our early efforts at *NOT* helping were focused more on how we thought *HE* would react than on our own needs and feelings. It wasn't until we took the focus off him and put it back on us (where it belongs) that things got better. Better for us, then better for him, because it finally forced him to face his situation honestly. That being said, even if things had not gotten better for my son, I would still call our story a success story. So many of my days were spent swinging wildly from frantic to hopeful to hopeless and back again because of something I had no control over. Now I have my joy back, regardless of my son's choices. [/QUOTE]
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