Originally Posted by pravchaw

I feel sorry for your parents but there is a lesson there for all of us. An addict is like a drowning person who will not help himself even though he knows how to swim, but will drag other people down who try to rescue him. It is better to throw them a life line than jump in the ocean to save them.

I don't want to be in my 70's worrying about an addicted son. I need to detach now, while I am still relatively young and vigorous and let him deal with life on its terms.