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Should I confront my son??
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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 702314" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>I agree with SWOT. It is time to let him manage his own life. If he is using, and I think he is, it will fall apart quickly if you stop helping him financially.</p><p></p><p>I know that you can't stop your mother from helping him but you can try to explain to her that anything she gives him or buys for him is being spent on drugs.</p><p></p><p>It is time to pull back and I would limit contact for a while. I had to take breaks from my daughter during the times that she was using. I blocked her calls and texts and deleted emails without reading them. It was the only way I could get any peace.</p><p></p><p>Posters always said that you would know that you loved one had stopped using because they would be different people when they did. I never knew what they meant until my daughter did stop. I can't believe the difference in her. She is so loving and giving now and really works at repairing the damage she did to the rest of us.</p><p></p><p>Therapy was also a lifeline for me. It taught me how to set firm boundaries and gave me someone to bounce ideas off of. My therapist helped me realize that I couldn't stop my daughter from using drugs and that I could only change my own enabling behavior.</p><p></p><p>{{{Hugs}}}</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 702314, member: 1967"] I agree with SWOT. It is time to let him manage his own life. If he is using, and I think he is, it will fall apart quickly if you stop helping him financially. I know that you can't stop your mother from helping him but you can try to explain to her that anything she gives him or buys for him is being spent on drugs. It is time to pull back and I would limit contact for a while. I had to take breaks from my daughter during the times that she was using. I blocked her calls and texts and deleted emails without reading them. It was the only way I could get any peace. Posters always said that you would know that you loved one had stopped using because they would be different people when they did. I never knew what they meant until my daughter did stop. I can't believe the difference in her. She is so loving and giving now and really works at repairing the damage she did to the rest of us. Therapy was also a lifeline for me. It taught me how to set firm boundaries and gave me someone to bounce ideas off of. My therapist helped me realize that I couldn't stop my daughter from using drugs and that I could only change my own enabling behavior. {{{Hugs}}} ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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