Do you tell your friends?
lillyknitting
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Loughton, Essex, England
Posts: 638
Originally Posted by pommie 
Do you tell your friends your situation and troubles with your addicted child?
I live in an over-55 community and everybody knows everybody else's business. I have one friend here that I would like to tell my troubles to but I am afraid that if I do(even tho she swears she wouldn't repeat it) that it would be all over the place.
Have you discussed your problems with friends?
I live in an over-55 community and everybody knows everybody else's business. I have one friend here that I would like to tell my troubles to but I am afraid that if I do(even tho she swears she wouldn't repeat it) that it would be all over the place.
Have you discussed your problems with friends?
Nature Girl
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: By The Lake
Posts: 60,328
Originally Posted by washbe2
If other family or friends ask how "B" is doing, I just say, "Oh, he's just being himself".
Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Florida
Posts: 59
I have told very few people about my son and daughter; unfortunately, they are both really popular, so everyone in this town knows. I would give anything to be able to move and start my life over, but I am rooted here with my business. And my family- dysfunction junction!
I do not talk to any immediate family members anymore except for two or three of them; the couple of family members who are gossips have told everyone in the family that I must be addicted to something since my kids are and I get looked at all funny. When I try to address it and call the gossips out, it gets worse. Family, holidays are so stressful; I don't attend them.
I spend my holidays and special occasions with the people who love and support me; that is my definition of family.
I do not talk to any immediate family members anymore except for two or three of them; the couple of family members who are gossips have told everyone in the family that I must be addicted to something since my kids are and I get looked at all funny. When I try to address it and call the gossips out, it gets worse. Family, holidays are so stressful; I don't attend them.
I spend my holidays and special occasions with the people who love and support me; that is my definition of family.
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