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About Me
GMaWilli
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About Me
I wish life would quit throwing me so many curves and things could just settle down for awhile, or preferably 4Ever!! Yeah, right.
I wish life would quit throwing me so many curves and things could just settle down for awhile, or preferably 4Ever!! Yeah, right.
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Interests
My relationship with God, Church, Christian music, Christian literature, taking walks, enjoying the outdoors in nice weather, playing with my GS, spending time with my kids.
My relationship with God, Church, Christian music, Christian literature, taking walks, enjoying the outdoors
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Journal
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my thoughts are with you
I’m With You
Thanks for your input on my journal page. This is the only place I know where others are going throught the same thing. Daily rollercoaster. Just our grands to move one day to the next. Time flies, yet progress is sooo slooow. If our bios felt the pain we do, I thnk they'd make different decisions.
This week i am just so angry with biomom , for her lack of progress. The grands are fine with me and I with them, but I don't even want to talk to biomom, and yet I have to arrange visitations. Although she has lost custody of oldest, conceivably a nutty judge could give him back. youngest is still pretty up in the air, I think a good lawyer could get her back to biomom, since she technically didnt do anything wrong, and when she "couldnt handle the baby" left her with a safe adult. Me. Then Lord help the child, becaue biomom cant cope. She doesnt do drugs, I think she is BPD. Hard to prove that in court.
I am 41. my oldestis 24, hard to believe I have been raising kids that long and may have 18 more years. I feel old enough to go do the things I couldnt when I had my kids, and not so old to have lost the inclination. I just hope raising these 2 babies, I can include them instead of completely lose my " empty nest time for fun" plans.
Thanks
Thank you. I do try my best to share at least some of hat I have been through in hopes that what i have accomplished and experienced can help soemoen else.
My prayers are with you and yours.
HUGS
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Glad to hear that everything is going good! It's always so nice to hear that and God knows you deserve it! :)
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Support Groups
Close Grandparents Raising Children
I currently have my 2 y.o. GS. Parents are addicted to heroin. I really hope they get clean and STAY clean. I want him to be with his parents IF, and ONLY IF they can do that. I don't want him to live a life on a rollercoaster with parents who are high one day and "clean" the next. He deserves stability & I'm prepared to give that to him & his other grandma is prepared to help do that as well.
Treatments
- Child Time-out Working / Worked
- Usually works pretty well. He sure doesn't like being sat in time out!
Close Families & Friends Of Addicts
My son & the mother of his baby have struggled with drug addiction for several years. AT times, the situation seems better, but the monster always seems to loom in the background waiting to rear its ugly head and drag them both back down into the pits of addiction. I pray every day that they will beat it. Nothing beats up your faith worse than loving a heroin addict, or in my case, TWO of them. Someone stop this roller coaster & let me off.
Treatments
- Al-Anon Considering
- Would like to go to some meetings. My ex is serving 15 yrs. for crime he committed while drunk & now I've been battling with my son's addictions for a good 5 years.
- Patience Not Working
- I'm running out of it.
- Psychotherapy Somewhat Helpful
- Would be much more helpful if I could afford to get a good counselor and keep going to him/her. Kids have never been open to it, but I sure wish they would give it an honest go.
- Talking Somewhat Helpful
- for a little while, but they always go right back to the stuff.
- Writing Working / Worked
- Helps ease my stress level & I can get support here where I can't from the everyday people in my life who just don't understand on the same level.
Open Heroin Addiction & Recovery
People I love with all of my heart are slaves to this monster. I'm here for support.
Treatments
- Suboxone Somewhat Helpful
- seemed to be effective, but my son didn't stay on it, so it didn't work more than the few days he used it to pacify me.
Open Step Families
I was a stepmother for over 14 years. When I divorced my husband, I was no longer a stepmother. My "former" stepson is 26 years old now & even though I'm no longer legally related to him, he will always, ALWAYS be my son. I don't think of him as "step". To me, he's just my son, but sometimes I have to explain it when people wonder when I could've been pregnant with him? I thought I was getting married again, which is why I originally signed up for this group, but my wedding is cancelled now
Open Sexual Abuse
GMaWilli hasn’t entered any details for this support group.Open Codependency
GMaWilli hasn’t entered any details for this support group.Open Single Parenting
Even when I was married to their father, emotionally I felt like a single parent; However he was a great provider & there was still his physical presence & some good times. In 2000 I left him because he committed an unspeakable act against a 12 y.o. while under the nfluence of booze. He's been incarcerated since 2002. The fallout from the choices he's made have been STEEP. He serves his sentence inside while I serve mine out here. He has NO clue the price that is being paid by all of us.
Open Foster Care
I'm embarking on the journey of being a foster relative caregiver to my GS.
Open Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
I'm concerned that my 2 y.o. might be displaying characteristics of this disorder. I'm coming here to learn.
