Originally Posted by
kmangel 
When my son first came home from rehab, I wanted to believe that my son wanted to be clean and sober more than anything in the world. Some people here said having him move in with us was not a good idea, but we wanted our story to be different.
I resembled that remark.
It was a long and self imposed painful journey to the realization that what I wanted meant nothing- that I had no control or influence over my daughter's choices.