Aww thanks guys. It's difficult to know if you're doing the right thing with kids who have got non-addicted parents who don't lie and put them first, let alone a child in my SD's position! I am an ardent believer in the truth, even if it hurts because if you have truth you have fact, and then its up to you how you handle it. Addiction is always painful, it cannot be viewed through rose coloured glasses, so now she is 13 she deserves the truth. Besides she can see for herself just by looking at her mum that mum is very sick, and if mum decides to tell her she weighs 84lbs at 5ft 3, knowing I work in medicine, then she must surely expect that SD will turn to me for answers. If an anorexic was that weight, we would be looking to admitting them to hospital, and so mum cannot even hide behind her lies.
It's a road I so wish we weren't travelling, but I have to say this site is helping, tremendously, so ......
