It's time
 

I knew the time might come and I think it's here. I'm pretty sure my AS has relapsed yet again. Don't have concrete evidence since my contact with him is limited but all the signs are there even though he maintains that he is clean I'm going to tell him to just go live his life and if he can manage a year or maybe two of sobriety then he can contact us again ... until then I just can't live in the shadow of his addiction. My heart is heavy but I just can't do it anymore ... I'm so sad tonight

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I am sorry you're sad tinks, but I know the feeling. When it's time, you know.
Just keep moving forward with your head up, keep sharing with your support.

Beth

I'm sorry for your pain.

There is still hope.

thanks for the love ...

I'm going on a trip tomorrow with my boys to pick their sister up in S.C. and head down to Florida to see my folks, my dad has cancer and I don't know how much time he has left, trying to cherish what we have. When we get back the three kids will all go back to school ... I'll be here with an empty nest. I guess I'm all grown up, now I need to figure out what I'm going to be :)

Yes ... I still have hope, even though it's a tiny flicker ..... it's there

Tinks, I'm so sad for you. Like you, my nest will be empty for the first time in September. My youngest will be going back to school, and my bonus son is no longer with us. I've decided to do some volunteer work for a local rehab facility. I feel the need to do something constructive in this area, given my experience, and I think taking an active role to help others in our situation will help ME a lot.

thanks seeking, I've already filled out paperwork and attended an orientation meeting to minister in a local jail, I look forward to being able to do that and possibly volunteer at a local rehab as well ...

I'm so sorry Tinks. We understand all that you are feeling...the absolute heaviness of disappointment and that all-too-familiar fear, anger and hopelessness. There's only one thing left to do (once again) and that is to place him in God's loving hands.

I think that the volunteer work you and SeekingGrowth are considering sounds like just the ticket. I've often thought of doing so myself after some of the dust settles in my own life. Surely all this hell we've been thru can be put to good use somehow.

Please let us know how you're doing. We care.

Dear Tinks

So sorry you're sad.

Wishing you peace.

(( Tinks)) Pray for you and your son to find the peace and health needed bt you both.