Hay, ginger poppy & Jim.
What hell are we going through??? I’ve just read some information about a course called CRAFT, it’s basically a way to change your interactions with an addict child to help them into a program whilst they are living at home. I think it’s around us changing our behaviours that might enable the addiction ( like we don’t know we that huh!!) perhaps I should have read it before I made the decision to ask my baby to leave? But I think I’d stopped enabling it a long time ago…. or did I! Still feeling crappy with myself and the worst parent ever.
Isn’t it strange how I feel worse for not enabling the addiction than I did for supporting it??
Have you read any of the book ginger?
My advice is take it hour by hour, notice the good stuff your kids do… there will be something even if it’s just the fact they walked upstairs rather than stomped!! There is good in them, some times were just to wrapped up in worry, which they perceive as anger/nagging/controlling, to notice. Stay strong x