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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 636823" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>This is a great letter. I hope and pray that it was cathartic for you to write it and post it here. </p><p></p><p>When we create a timeline or a journal or a listing of all that we have done and been through for our now-grown children who are difficult children, it is astonishing that we were able to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.</p><p></p><p>You are incredible. Stop for a minute and feel that incredible-ness that is YOU. Your stamina, strength, courage, fortitude and love for your children.</p><p></p><p>You son, now a fully grown man, will do what he will do. His choices. His and only his.</p><p></p><p>May we all find the power, strength and resources to love our grown children anyway----regardless of their actions and their choices---and to find peace, happiness, even JOY, contentment and serenity as we do it. </p><p></p><p>This journey of mine, as difficult child's mother, has been one of the most refining processes of my life. I am a much better person today, for having gone through it. I am grateful for that silver lining of the very black cloud that has been the past five years.</p><p></p><p>Let's try to find something good in all of this pain and fear and grief. Because if we can, then we don't have to live with the deep sadness, grief, despair and sense that it all was for nothing. It wasn't, but we have to see it and claim it.</p><p></p><p>Warm hugs for you my friend. You are a true Warrior Mom. </p><p></p><p>You're letting him go, and that is exactly the thing to do, for yourself, now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 636823, member: 17542"] This is a great letter. I hope and pray that it was cathartic for you to write it and post it here. When we create a timeline or a journal or a listing of all that we have done and been through for our now-grown children who are difficult children, it is astonishing that we were able to keep on putting one foot in front of the other. You are incredible. Stop for a minute and feel that incredible-ness that is YOU. Your stamina, strength, courage, fortitude and love for your children. You son, now a fully grown man, will do what he will do. His choices. His and only his. May we all find the power, strength and resources to love our grown children anyway----regardless of their actions and their choices---and to find peace, happiness, even JOY, contentment and serenity as we do it. This journey of mine, as difficult child's mother, has been one of the most refining processes of my life. I am a much better person today, for having gone through it. I am grateful for that silver lining of the very black cloud that has been the past five years. Let's try to find something good in all of this pain and fear and grief. Because if we can, then we don't have to live with the deep sadness, grief, despair and sense that it all was for nothing. It wasn't, but we have to see it and claim it. Warm hugs for you my friend. You are a true Warrior Mom. You're letting him go, and that is exactly the thing to do, for yourself, now. [/QUOTE]
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