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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MommaTried24" data-source="post: 765462" data-attributes="member: 33205">ANewLife4Me you nailed it! It's a way to hook me back into the same old conversation. Beating that dead horse. A way to hook my guilt by knowing I will feel sorry and worry for him that he needs a place to go. He was with his dad the first year or so (that's where I dropped him 4 years ago) but I know his dad put him out. He got a taste of what I've lived. I think they even tried to put him in a three day psychiatric ward at Vanderbilt for alcoholism. I can read all of the medical notes online from all the years he was at Vanderbilt as a kid with epilepsy. He was just angry in the notes as usual and he left. He's been living with this old gay guy for the last few years and he is lucky he keeps letting him come back after jail. I am proud today that I didn't respond. I was running on empty yesterday so, after a night of rest, I feel better. Thank you for being proud of me.My son went to rehab one time. Stayed the 28 days, moved to the halfway house and then refused to follow the rules so he got kicked out. He had been there about three months. Rent and everything was $100 a month! He had transportation, food, everything he needed. He's refused to try again at the cost of having no place to go. Our initial plan (before the drinking started) was to put a tiny home on the lot I own next to my house for him to live. He could afford that with his disability check. It would have been the perfect set up but I refused to do it when the drinking began. He knows all he has to do is go to rehab. His choice, his consequence.I so know what you said about driving by the jail. The jail here is just about a half mile from my house. I'm so glad you were able to ride by there and not have any feelings about it. I'm grateful I don't have to do that here now since he's two hours south of me. He got out of jail down there this time with $4,200 in the bank. Social Security kept paying him this time and didn't find out he was incarcerated until after he got out. I received the letter in the mail since he's still not changed his address with them. Another broken record. So he's got money but he's probably already ran through it as usual.Thank you for taking the time to be here for me. I really appreciate you! I somehow know that if you and I were to ever meet in person, we would become fast friends! I'm wishing you a Happy Friday! I'm off work today so I'm going to stay busy at the house.</blockquote>

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