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I need strength to stop enabling and kick my drug addicted son out
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<blockquote data-quote="mrsammler" data-source="post: 526244"><p>Your son's story is very, very similar to my nephew's at 18, but for a few details. My nephew has been using & dealing (off and on) since he was 13. He parties almost every night and sleeps in until the late afternoon--often until dinnertime. My sister has never pressed him to leave (despite much violence and destruction of property and theft and lying), nor to go to rehab, nor to work. Your son is now identical to my nephew at 18. Let me describe my nephew now, at 20: he has 6 criminal offenses on his adult record. In two years he has made zero progress in the community colleges he has attended at her expense. Pressed to take a job recently, he held a fast food job briefly and then lost it. He lives at home and continues to be a colossal nuisance and embarrassment for her and his easy child younger brother. He is grossly immature and seemingly incorrigibly parasitic. He still sleeps in every day and parties every night and makes no contribution to the household or to his progress into adulthood. He frequently drives drunk and/or drugged. He is a menace to his mother's neighborhood and his extended family members--uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents--have all turned away from him (and his mother, sadly) due to the menace and constant annoyance that he brings to all occasions and gatherings. He is a manchild at 20. </p><p></p><p>While I certainly understand the protective impulse, refusing to put him out of the house and let him fend for himself is NOT helping your son.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrsammler, post: 526244"] Your son's story is very, very similar to my nephew's at 18, but for a few details. My nephew has been using & dealing (off and on) since he was 13. He parties almost every night and sleeps in until the late afternoon--often until dinnertime. My sister has never pressed him to leave (despite much violence and destruction of property and theft and lying), nor to go to rehab, nor to work. Your son is now identical to my nephew at 18. Let me describe my nephew now, at 20: he has 6 criminal offenses on his adult record. In two years he has made zero progress in the community colleges he has attended at her expense. Pressed to take a job recently, he held a fast food job briefly and then lost it. He lives at home and continues to be a colossal nuisance and embarrassment for her and his easy child younger brother. He is grossly immature and seemingly incorrigibly parasitic. He still sleeps in every day and parties every night and makes no contribution to the household or to his progress into adulthood. He frequently drives drunk and/or drugged. He is a menace to his mother's neighborhood and his extended family members--uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents--have all turned away from him (and his mother, sadly) due to the menace and constant annoyance that he brings to all occasions and gatherings. He is a manchild at 20. While I certainly understand the protective impulse, refusing to put him out of the house and let him fend for himself is NOT helping your son. [/QUOTE]
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