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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 749641" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Hi!</p><p></p><p>I haven't been around for quite some time, but some of you may remember me and mine. </p><p></p><p>I'm still liking my, not so new anymore, job and really enjoying challenging myself professionally and having kind of 'new life', that I live for me and not for my family. Husband has needed some adjustment to that but does okay with changed dynamics nowadays. We are happy.</p><p></p><p>Things with Ache, my beloved troubled boy, have been surprisingly great. He is now 26. He is still medical school, does really well and not only academically but socially too. Is reconsidering which kind of the doctor he wants to be and I think leaning towards surgery instead of pathology right now, but he has lots of time to make up his mind. He is back with his on/off girlfrined whom I happen to like more than I maybe should, but she is an awesome young woman even though I don't want to get too invested them staying together. </p><p></p><p>Joy, now 23, is doing great too. He too decided to ditch pro sports and is in the law school. He is currently bit down because his girlfriend dumbed him, but I'm sure he will survive.</p><p></p><p>Both of them are leaving on their own, but quite near so they still often spend time around our house, which I like. This is a family farm after all.</p><p></p><p>However we are also back to active parenting. Our respite kid "Girlie" hit the puberty and everything went to heck in a handbasket so to say. Alcohol, drugs, bad friends, sexual acting out, petty crimes, truancy, running away from home, huge fights with her mom and so on. Ended up to the treatment center for couple of weeks and after that we ended up fostering her for now. She has been with us a year. Ups and downs and quite a ride, but she has stabilized some. Has catched up her school work, follows some basic rules in our house most of the time, current friends are better and hasn't been caught doing drugs or any criminal activity in several months. More in the "typical difficult teen" category for now. Still having hard time to be civil with her mother so I guess she may stay with us quite some time still. Her mother is not a bad mom and has tried her best, but Girlie has always been very parentified child and her mothers choice of boyfriends have done a number on her. Girlie still needs quite a lot therapeutic work to sort things out for herself.</p><p></p><p>The dog is doing fine and is still lovely. Total rock. </p><p></p><p>My dad... well, he is still my dad...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 749641, member: 14557"] Hi! I haven't been around for quite some time, but some of you may remember me and mine. I'm still liking my, not so new anymore, job and really enjoying challenging myself professionally and having kind of 'new life', that I live for me and not for my family. Husband has needed some adjustment to that but does okay with changed dynamics nowadays. We are happy. Things with Ache, my beloved troubled boy, have been surprisingly great. He is now 26. He is still medical school, does really well and not only academically but socially too. Is reconsidering which kind of the doctor he wants to be and I think leaning towards surgery instead of pathology right now, but he has lots of time to make up his mind. He is back with his on/off girlfrined whom I happen to like more than I maybe should, but she is an awesome young woman even though I don't want to get too invested them staying together. Joy, now 23, is doing great too. He too decided to ditch pro sports and is in the law school. He is currently bit down because his girlfriend dumbed him, but I'm sure he will survive. Both of them are leaving on their own, but quite near so they still often spend time around our house, which I like. This is a family farm after all. However we are also back to active parenting. Our respite kid "Girlie" hit the puberty and everything went to heck in a handbasket so to say. Alcohol, drugs, bad friends, sexual acting out, petty crimes, truancy, running away from home, huge fights with her mom and so on. Ended up to the treatment center for couple of weeks and after that we ended up fostering her for now. She has been with us a year. Ups and downs and quite a ride, but she has stabilized some. Has catched up her school work, follows some basic rules in our house most of the time, current friends are better and hasn't been caught doing drugs or any criminal activity in several months. More in the "typical difficult teen" category for now. Still having hard time to be civil with her mother so I guess she may stay with us quite some time still. Her mother is not a bad mom and has tried her best, but Girlie has always been very parentified child and her mothers choice of boyfriends have done a number on her. Girlie still needs quite a lot therapeutic work to sort things out for herself. The dog is doing fine and is still lovely. Total rock. My dad... well, he is still my dad... [/QUOTE]
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