CHRISTIAN PARENTS of ESTRANGED ADULT CHILDREN Community Group
Estrangement makes it difficult to talk about with family, friends, neighbors and church members. Christians are NOT immune to broken families. Talk about your experiences with those who know how you feel and get positive support through your Christian faith...."In these last days difficult times will come, for men will be lovers of self...disobedient to parents,...
God bless you with peace.
I have found so much comfort and practical advice from the book "Parents with a Broken Heart". It is an excellent, realistic view of how to accept what is and live a purposeful life in the meantime.
Can't remember how old your son is? But I do believe it takes them a LONGGG time to mature these days. Seems like much longer than when we were young adults. And I absolutely believe in spiritual warfare and the darkness of this world getting into our kids' heads- I believe this more than ever.
Hugs.
My suggestion is that you not overthink it. Just enjoy the fact that you saw him. As lindajoan said, it's difficult, maybe impossible, to get inside another's mind. Who knows what he was thinking while he was there... could have been a million different things, and quite likely not what you think he was thinking. It may have been a spur of the moment decision and then they got there and didn't know what to say, or how to act.
We cannot read their minds, any more than they can read ours. :-)
(and yes, I am jealous)
used to come and go from my life at her whim also. It's very painful to have the child you raised and loved play with your emotions and seem to enjoy it, at least in my case. It's been 6 years since I've seen my ED, and in a sad way, it's actually easier this way, than having her come and go. I've excepted that she's a very immature, confused young lady fumbling her way through life without any Godly advise or influence.
It wasn't anything we did, it's just a sad way some adult children choose to live their lives.....