Oh, I hope your dog is found! It sounds like he's been gone overnight?
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On the difficult child front CA? I think you are holding up beautifully. It is a very hard thing to do. I don't know why the kids pretend they have no clue. (As when your son wants to know why he has been cut off.) You didn't ask us for a response to that one? But a good response might be something like: I love you. You need to stand up. You were raised better. I expect you to stand up and become the man I raised you to be. You will get nothing from me until you turn your life around. I love you too much to watch you self destruct and I am not going to help you do it ever again.
You are a man.
It helped me to remember that there are 19 year old soldiers fighting in strange lands with no help from their mothers...but somehow, our difficult child sons cannot manage to pay their electric bills.
It is hard to see clearly that our children are grown men. Just like when they were little and they needed to do something for their own good, we need to help them stand up now, as men.
This is true, and it helps me, to look at it that way, CA Mom.
Wishing well, holding strong for you.
Cedar
