Guilt continues to let us think we had some power over our child's addiction.
If we had done A, B, or C things would have been different.
Maybe, maybe not. We can never know.
Drugs are an equal opportunity destroyers. Children from all types of families become addicts.
Every so often I think I failed my child. Then I have to nip that thinking right off.
Like you KindEyes, I am a loving, attentive, caring and compassionate mom that did my best.
An addicted child is the hand we were dealt.
Now it is for us to make the best of the hand we were dealt.
When we take my own inventories it is important to clearly see and understand that we were good mothers.