If you can do that, you can find recovery. And good God you’ve beat the odds so far. We will never give up hope as long as you are alive. Who would want to live every day wondering how to get the next fix? We know you hurt. We know you don’t really want to live this way. Despite all the chaos, the stints in jail the absolute hell you and the rest of us have endured. Watching a child self destruct in front of you is the single hardest thing we’ve ever had to watch. We might throw up our hands, kick you out, seem like we are giving up and even taking a break sometimes because emotionally we can’t be in this chaos nonstop. Did we do something wrong? How can we lead you back to recovery? Will forcing you work? This demon called addiction is holding your soul and your brain hostage.Ĭancer is ugly but it doesn’t have a side this self-destructive. We tell ourselves it’s the drugs not our loved one. You have a disease but it doesn’t look like any ordinary disease because you’re stealing, lying to us, manipulating us. When we are in emotional turmoil, we relapse ourselves–into old habits of accusation. That is so counterintuitive to being a parent. In fact, what we need to do is less instead of more. That is our absolute greatest fear as a parent. Emotionally we are crushed because we are afraid you are going to die. We want to understand relapses are part of the disease and part of recovery. That last time you relapsed, you think you saw disappointment on our faces.īut that’s not what that emotion was. I want you to know that even though you are struggling, maybe even using, you are loved.
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