My Heart is hurting
suffering is not a requirement
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: rising above the ashes
Posts: 147
Nina Kay I remember you. Sorry you are at a low spot again.. No need to tell you your at the right place here..I am forever grateful for SR.
Just an update..to whom it may concern..my son is now living with his dad who is a serious alchoholic..My son told me he is not doing dope..he is, "just having a couple of beers with his dad."
ok..i am glad "IF" he is not shooting dope..(however, I can't ever totally believe anything he says anymore)
Alcohol isn't any better except he 'might not' die as quick. I love my son and I pray every day he will find recovery. I gotta keep remembering.. He isn't a bad person, he is a sick person. that I give over to God. As long as they are sucking in air ..There is Hope for all our addicts to recover.
Thanks to all for being here
Love and hugs Unique
Just an update..to whom it may concern..my son is now living with his dad who is a serious alchoholic..My son told me he is not doing dope..he is, "just having a couple of beers with his dad."
ok..i am glad "IF" he is not shooting dope..(however, I can't ever totally believe anything he says anymore)
Alcohol isn't any better except he 'might not' die as quick. I love my son and I pray every day he will find recovery. I gotta keep remembering.. He isn't a bad person, he is a sick person. that I give over to God. As long as they are sucking in air ..There is Hope for all our addicts to recover.
Thanks to all for being here
Love and hugs Unique
Nature Girl
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: By The Lake
Posts: 60,328
He isn't a bad person, he is a sick person. that I give over to God.
Hugs and Hugs
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Dallas TX
Posts: 2,282
This is a treacherous, cruel, adaptive, and cunning enemy.
It steals souls and feels nothing except joy in the doing.
At every peace table, it is planning the next strike----
bargaining for additional hours/days in order to solidify
it's advantage for the next move.
Do not imagine you can make peace with this antihuman
monster---you can't. At very (VERY!!!) best, you can hold it
at bay with MASSIVE investments in time and
hard discipline. The battle will necessarily consume a great
deal of energy (emotional, financial, & physical)-----energy
that one would have hoped would have been expended for
better result.
But make no mistake, this opponent won't settle for
your "best effort".It wants everything you've got. All of it,
with a generous frosting of any dignity you may have
imagined you might one day walk away from this with.
iamunique, your son's 90 day achievement sober WAS
a victory, and we need to guard our good days around here
with an unmatched jealousy. This thing wants what we will
never give it, our collective human dignity. Your son may
be skin and bones now----but now is not forever. He is a
member of the human family. I am not particularly religious
----but attacks to the core like this call for things beyond us.
Perhaps your son does not now have the
ability to spit in the face of the devil.
WE will spit for him-------
until he regains his strength to do so himself.
And to every soul that crosses paths with SR:
Do not underestimate this opponent.
(BUT!) Like Nina K says: we are still standing!
It steals souls and feels nothing except joy in the doing.
At every peace table, it is planning the next strike----
bargaining for additional hours/days in order to solidify
it's advantage for the next move.
Do not imagine you can make peace with this antihuman
monster---you can't. At very (VERY!!!) best, you can hold it
at bay with MASSIVE investments in time and
hard discipline. The battle will necessarily consume a great
deal of energy (emotional, financial, & physical)-----energy
that one would have hoped would have been expended for
better result.
But make no mistake, this opponent won't settle for
your "best effort".It wants everything you've got. All of it,
with a generous frosting of any dignity you may have
imagined you might one day walk away from this with.
iamunique, your son's 90 day achievement sober WAS
a victory, and we need to guard our good days around here
with an unmatched jealousy. This thing wants what we will
never give it, our collective human dignity. Your son may
be skin and bones now----but now is not forever. He is a
member of the human family. I am not particularly religious
----but attacks to the core like this call for things beyond us.
Perhaps your son does not now have the
ability to spit in the face of the devil.
WE will spit for him-------
until he regains his strength to do so himself.
And to every soul that crosses paths with SR:
Do not underestimate this opponent.
(BUT!) Like Nina K says: we are still standing!
Still Standing
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Here @ SR.
Posts: 3,296
Hi Unique. It made me feel good that you remembered me. I remember you also. I always heard my Mother say, when we were growing up, "Where there's Life, There's Hope. I know that's exactly what you are meaning too, and I really so agree. That keeps me from completely giving up on recovery for my Son. My God has been working on my son and rescuing him for 20 years now and as long as he is breathing, God will still work to get through to him and save him from his own destruction. He is my son's God too and He loves my son more than I even know how to.
Hang in there Unique. Sending You ((((((Supportive & Comforting Hugs))))) from another hurting & loving Mother.
Hang in there Unique. Sending You ((((((Supportive & Comforting Hugs))))) from another hurting & loving Mother.
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