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<blockquote data-quote="Nature" data-source="post: 740253" data-attributes="member: 19011"><p>The wisdom of all the posters and the sharing of experiences has always left me in awe. I found myself nodding in agreement at all the post. My son too always blamed others and never took responsibility for his own actions. Right now things are going positive for him but I too remain guarded so afraid he may resort to his past choices.</p><p></p><p>We have to remind ourselves we are good mothers - like you Elsi I didn't visit my son for the first couple days he was in intensive care. He was not only in a lot of pain but in the midst of withdrawal and as I am always the target of his anger I felt it best for his own recovery to not be there until his pain and withdrawal symptoms were stabilized. You, Elsi are important and must take care of YOU.</p><p> I felt like the main character in Sophie's Choice as I chose to assist my other child who has Aspergers and was in the middle of selling his place, and moving across the country. He found it overwhelming with the paperwork and the steps needed for the sale, storage, moving truck and travel arrangements and I chose to be there for him instead. That son has never asked for my help, nor money or anything else. Despite his limitations he purchased his bachelor suite on his own without a cent from me and has managed to do fine in life. Always seemed so unfair to me that his younger brother was the one that took up the majority of my finances, energy and other resources because of the choices he made.</p><p>I'm thinking of you as your story is similar to my story in many ways regarding the choices our sons have made in terms of their drug addiction. Hugs</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nature, post: 740253, member: 19011"] The wisdom of all the posters and the sharing of experiences has always left me in awe. I found myself nodding in agreement at all the post. My son too always blamed others and never took responsibility for his own actions. Right now things are going positive for him but I too remain guarded so afraid he may resort to his past choices. We have to remind ourselves we are good mothers - like you Elsi I didn't visit my son for the first couple days he was in intensive care. He was not only in a lot of pain but in the midst of withdrawal and as I am always the target of his anger I felt it best for his own recovery to not be there until his pain and withdrawal symptoms were stabilized. You, Elsi are important and must take care of YOU. I felt like the main character in Sophie's Choice as I chose to assist my other child who has Aspergers and was in the middle of selling his place, and moving across the country. He found it overwhelming with the paperwork and the steps needed for the sale, storage, moving truck and travel arrangements and I chose to be there for him instead. That son has never asked for my help, nor money or anything else. Despite his limitations he purchased his bachelor suite on his own without a cent from me and has managed to do fine in life. Always seemed so unfair to me that his younger brother was the one that took up the majority of my finances, energy and other resources because of the choices he made. I'm thinking of you as your story is similar to my story in many ways regarding the choices our sons have made in terms of their drug addiction. Hugs [/QUOTE]
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