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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 660108" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p style="margin-left: 20px">Lil, I think the important thing now is to hold firm, as others have said.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Two times, my son did this. The first, he went to see a girl in Brazil, saving the money for the airfare from a Christmas Job when he was 18. I gave him money to pay for a hostel so that he would not have to stay with her family. He did not listen. He got kicked out, robbed and slept on the beach until he went to a friend of mine, who let him stay until he could return to the states. To this day I do not know what happened there.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">He did it a second time about a year and a half ago, following a girl to stay at a shelter she knew about in a nearby community. This time the relationship lasted about a week. She dumped him. He was homeless in that town for 4 months.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">They think these girls will rescue them. The girls have fantasies of their own that our sons do not fulfill.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Lil, I only know that any help I gave along the way has seemed to me only to make the bottoming process more extended.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">There is a will or a sense of unreality or both that needs to be tested until they are willing or forced to accept the reality of things and their position, if they ever do.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">This is the hardest thing in my life I have been through. And I sense it is for you, as well.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">I wish I had something to share with you to make it easier. I take heart in COM's words, "it is all taken care of." With this there is at least the chance to rest.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">COPA</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 660108, member: 18958"] [INDENT]Lil, I think the important thing now is to hold firm, as others have said. Two times, my son did this. The first, he went to see a girl in Brazil, saving the money for the airfare from a Christmas Job when he was 18. I gave him money to pay for a hostel so that he would not have to stay with her family. He did not listen. He got kicked out, robbed and slept on the beach until he went to a friend of mine, who let him stay until he could return to the states. To this day I do not know what happened there. He did it a second time about a year and a half ago, following a girl to stay at a shelter she knew about in a nearby community. This time the relationship lasted about a week. She dumped him. He was homeless in that town for 4 months. They think these girls will rescue them. The girls have fantasies of their own that our sons do not fulfill. Lil, I only know that any help I gave along the way has seemed to me only to make the bottoming process more extended. There is a will or a sense of unreality or both that needs to be tested until they are willing or forced to accept the reality of things and their position, if they ever do. This is the hardest thing in my life I have been through. And I sense it is for you, as well. I wish I had something to share with you to make it easier. I take heart in COM's words, "it is all taken care of." With this there is at least the chance to rest. COPA[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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