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Three years since we’ve seen her
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<blockquote data-quote="lovemysons" data-source="post: 759089" data-attributes="member: 3305"><p>Hi LeaMac, </p><p>How are you doing? Have you heard from your daughter lately?</p><p></p><p>I think you are right to not rent an apt for her or buy her a trailer etc. Sounds like you have already learned that the consequences seem to always fall on us unless we are out of the way.</p><p></p><p>I’ve been thinking a lot lately about allowing our adult children to learn the hard way...of course it isn’t what we want. It goes against the grain of every motherly instinct we have. And yet...maybe this is the ONLY way children like ours can survive and thrive in this world.</p><p></p><p>My dear husband and I have tried SO hard, for close to 20 years, to save our sons! One got sober 3 years ago on his own, the other is still stuck. I think I am learning for the first time... like my dear friend Esther from the board recently told me, we can’t live their lives for them forever. At some point, they have to want their lives to improve through sobriety and hard work, more than we do. </p><p>So we wait. And hope. And pray.</p><p>lms</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lovemysons, post: 759089, member: 3305"] Hi LeaMac, How are you doing? Have you heard from your daughter lately? I think you are right to not rent an apt for her or buy her a trailer etc. Sounds like you have already learned that the consequences seem to always fall on us unless we are out of the way. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about allowing our adult children to learn the hard way...of course it isn’t what we want. It goes against the grain of every motherly instinct we have. And yet...maybe this is the ONLY way children like ours can survive and thrive in this world. My dear husband and I have tried SO hard, for close to 20 years, to save our sons! One got sober 3 years ago on his own, the other is still stuck. I think I am learning for the first time... like my dear friend Esther from the board recently told me, we can’t live their lives for them forever. At some point, they have to want their lives to improve through sobriety and hard work, more than we do. So we wait. And hope. And pray. lms [/QUOTE]
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