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Will I ever be happy again?
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<blockquote data-quote="MissLulu" data-source="post: 755705" data-attributes="member: 24721"><p>RN, thank you. You have given me hope. Maybe he will turn himself around one day. </p><p></p><p>He has made a lot of progress over the past 12 months - he's now been continuously employed for one year, and the incidences of "meltdowns" have been fewer. He is mostly polite to us and not too demanding. Back he backslides every now and then and I am reminded of what he can be like. And if I'm honest, he is selfish all the time. He's polite to us because right now he needs us - he doesn't have any where else to go. (When he leaves in March it will be to a house we have bought for him to rent. I did this for my own mental health - not for him!) He doesn't contribute to our household in a positive way he only takes. I am always looking for the good (and there is some) but I have to acknowledge that there is something very broken in him, something that allows him to only view the world through his own selfish eyes, and to see himself as a victim of circumstance rather than the recipient of consequences for his own stupid actions. Nothing I do or say can change that. Only he can do the work to fix himself. I'm not sure that will ever happen, but your example has shown me that there is always hope.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MissLulu, post: 755705, member: 24721"] RN, thank you. You have given me hope. Maybe he will turn himself around one day. He has made a lot of progress over the past 12 months - he's now been continuously employed for one year, and the incidences of "meltdowns" have been fewer. He is mostly polite to us and not too demanding. Back he backslides every now and then and I am reminded of what he can be like. And if I'm honest, he is selfish all the time. He's polite to us because right now he needs us - he doesn't have any where else to go. (When he leaves in March it will be to a house we have bought for him to rent. I did this for my own mental health - not for him!) He doesn't contribute to our household in a positive way he only takes. I am always looking for the good (and there is some) but I have to acknowledge that there is something very broken in him, something that allows him to only view the world through his own selfish eyes, and to see himself as a victim of circumstance rather than the recipient of consequences for his own stupid actions. Nothing I do or say can change that. Only he can do the work to fix himself. I'm not sure that will ever happen, but your example has shown me that there is always hope. [/QUOTE]
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