Parenting Teenagers (12-18) Support Group
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My Daughter is 19 on the 30th. Today I will be talking to my daughter about her alcohol and drug addiction.
I believe it will be a good start for us. A couple weeks ago I got into a physical fight with her. I got a concussion, I got the lower end of the deal in the fight.
I'm not a fighter, I don't believe fighting is the solution to any thing, I'm not a physically strong person. So fighting is a LAST resort for me.
Today being Easter, I hope she will consider my intervention and go to treatment.
This is a last resort. If she doesn't go to treatment, get her diploma, and have a job, and an apt. in that order, within the next year, I will take steps to removing her from my life, and moving on with my life.
I can no longer be a crutch for her, and a punching bag, whenever she is hurting.
I have to raise my other 3 children, and be able to live life without feeling afraid or wonder if im be broke because she is stealing from me. I want to be able to come home and not see a bunch of drunk people in my living room. I want to drive my own car to work and have it when I need it. She thinks because i have a car she can take it when ever she want and not have to ask. Just demands that because she is my daughter, she deserves this and that.
I am ready to make my stand. I want freedom from abuse and manipulation.
I believe it will be a good start for us. A couple weeks ago I got into a physical fight with her. I got a concussion, I got the lower end of the deal in the fight.
I'm not a fighter, I don't believe fighting is the solution to any thing, I'm not a physically strong person. So fighting is a LAST resort for me.
Today being Easter, I hope she will consider my intervention and go to treatment.
This is a last resort. If she doesn't go to treatment, get her diploma, and have a job, and an apt. in that order, within the next year, I will take steps to removing her from my life, and moving on with my life.
I can no longer be a crutch for her, and a punching bag, whenever she is hurting.
I have to raise my other 3 children, and be able to live life without feeling afraid or wonder if im be broke because she is stealing from me. I want to be able to come home and not see a bunch of drunk people in my living room. I want to drive my own car to work and have it when I need it. She thinks because i have a car she can take it when ever she want and not have to ask. Just demands that because she is my daughter, she deserves this and that.
I am ready to make my stand. I want freedom from abuse and manipulation.
Be strong. It is the right thing to do.
I work today, so after work we will go have our easter egg hunt, and then dinner, and after that is done we will have the children go out and have her intervention.
tough love, is the word i hear, I am so lonely without her presence, but I know in my heart this is what she has been needing all along.
With her drugs, alcohol and choice of friends, and family taking her side, its hard to get anywhere with her,.
I've been doing a lot of crying the last couple of weeks, because she did the plastic egg stuffing with me,and the coloring of eggs with the girls, as my son is too "old" for easter egg hunting. I spent a lot of time with her, good times. But emotional and physical abuse is not accepted on my part.