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<blockquote data-quote="ANewLife4Me" data-source="post: 765445" data-attributes="member: 32799"><p>I have not seen my daughter for a year and a half now.&nbsp; At first when she just up and left us one night was in a deep depression and cried non stop all day, my every waking thought was of her. She is in jail at the moment and during this time I have been reading on this board and books, strengthening myself with the truth of the situation and took my blinders off from continuing what did not work in the past. Allowing myself to feel grief over the situation and praying so hard for it to change but, knowing how destructive it is to my health and destructive for the others in my life…husband and son. I am 58 years old and put the last 10 years of my life into my daughter, before I die don’t I deserve a life as well? I want whatever days God has given me left on this earth to be happy and joyful ones as I never really had a life for myself, was always caring for others. While I hold out hope my daughter will change, I cannot keep obsessing over when she does not.&nbsp; I am leaving it in her hands how she proceed after jail and if that does not include showing me major changes, I am going forward…for ME. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤗" title="Hugging face&nbsp; &nbsp; :hugging:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f917.png" data-shortname=":hugging:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="❤️" title="Red heart&nbsp; &nbsp; :heart:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/2764.png" data-shortname=":heart:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="ANewLife4Me, post: 765445, member: 32799"] I have not seen my daughter for a year and a half now. At first when she just up and left us one night was in a deep depression and cried non stop all day, my every waking thought was of her. She is in jail at the moment and during this time I have been reading on this board and books, strengthening myself with the truth of the situation and took my blinders off from continuing what did not work in the past. Allowing myself to feel grief over the situation and praying so hard for it to change but, knowing how destructive it is to my health and destructive for the others in my life…husband and son. I am 58 years old and put the last 10 years of my life into my daughter, before I die don’t I deserve a life as well? I want whatever days God has given me left on this earth to be happy and joyful ones as I never really had a life for myself, was always caring for others. While I hold out hope my daughter will change, I cannot keep obsessing over when she does not. I am leaving it in her hands how she proceed after jail and if that does not include showing me major changes, I am going forward…for ME. 🤗❤️ [/QUOTE]

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