Old 02-01-2012, 12:03 AM
  # 5 (permalink)  
bonsoireveryone
Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 9
Thank you Kuan. It is my first close experience of seeing the day to day trauma of an AS. I've seen many people of AS's age make bad choices in life and seen the resulting disaster and mayhem and how the situation is prolonged from the enabling of family members. You are so right when you say that this situation is an addict's dream. I feel that the family are just putting a band aid over a huge hemorrhage and don't want to get to the root of the problem. Nothing I can do, I know.

Reading so many people's stories here has helped confirm my belief that there is nothing I can do/should do and made me very determined not to let this have a negative impact on my own life. I feel calmer. AS knows how far he can push everyone in the close and extended family and also those he knows outside the family. Some have a zero tolerance to his antics and some enable it. He knows that I'm in the zero tolerance camp.

Thank you again.
bonsoireveryone is offline