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Stressed to the point Im sick
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<blockquote data-quote="RN0441" data-source="post: 697755" data-attributes="member: 15032"><p>Welcome T Rene:</p><p></p><p>It sounds to me like you have done everything you can do for your son. You cannot live his life for him. You cannot get his wife back for him.</p><p></p><p>He is an adult and if he does not want help there is nothing that you can do to MAKE him want help. As SWOT says, you have to take care of yourself. It sounds like you have already done way too much and enabled him to not grow up.</p><p></p><p>I am doing the same thing with my almost 21 year old son. He doesn't want to grow up either but we are finally working on detaching and not enabling him. We do love him very much but he has to figure his life out on his own. Sometimes what we think is helping them actually hurts them.</p><p></p><p>There will be more along with better advice but wanted to offer my support and let you know this is not on YOU. Read the posts on here and you'll see the point where we have gotten once we realize we've done everything we can do and now we turned their life back over to them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RN0441, post: 697755, member: 15032"] Welcome T Rene: It sounds to me like you have done everything you can do for your son. You cannot live his life for him. You cannot get his wife back for him. He is an adult and if he does not want help there is nothing that you can do to MAKE him want help. As SWOT says, you have to take care of yourself. It sounds like you have already done way too much and enabled him to not grow up. I am doing the same thing with my almost 21 year old son. He doesn't want to grow up either but we are finally working on detaching and not enabling him. We do love him very much but he has to figure his life out on his own. Sometimes what we think is helping them actually hurts them. There will be more along with better advice but wanted to offer my support and let you know this is not on YOU. Read the posts on here and you'll see the point where we have gotten once we realize we've done everything we can do and now we turned their life back over to them. [/QUOTE]
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