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You know you have a difficult child when . . .
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<blockquote data-quote="dayatatime" data-source="post: 708629" data-attributes="member: 17805"><p>When every refused request for money comes to involve, in the rebuttal, the phrase "just let me, your son starve" even after you're sure he stole money. Or when your own grip on events gets uncertain because you have no proof, but there's really no other explanation. </p><p></p><p>Or when there's constant insistence that he is actively working on change, even when he calls from a drug friend's house. </p><p></p><p>Or when you think you just can't feel shame anymore, already having faced circumstance after circumstance where you can't hide what's going on to others, and having been accepted instead of cast out, but then you feel more shame, more heartbreak. </p><p></p><p>Or when you have so much practice staying calm that he can tell you about a violent crime he was somewhat involved in and you can take in without shock or outrage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dayatatime, post: 708629, member: 17805"] When every refused request for money comes to involve, in the rebuttal, the phrase "just let me, your son starve" even after you're sure he stole money. Or when your own grip on events gets uncertain because you have no proof, but there's really no other explanation. Or when there's constant insistence that he is actively working on change, even when he calls from a drug friend's house. Or when you think you just can't feel shame anymore, already having faced circumstance after circumstance where you can't hide what's going on to others, and having been accepted instead of cast out, but then you feel more shame, more heartbreak. Or when you have so much practice staying calm that he can tell you about a violent crime he was somewhat involved in and you can take in without shock or outrage. [/QUOTE]
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