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Re: Any words of wisdom to help me through this? » Kath

Posted by Declan on July 25, 2006, at 3:29:15

In reply to Re: Any words of wisdom to help me through this? » Declan, posted by Kath on July 24, 2006, at 20:54:40

If my kid told me he was using crystal meth and weed, I would simply concentrate on the meth and ignore the weed. I'd say (this is me) that meth has something going for it as a party drug, but that it lasts much too long and is way too hard on my system at my age, and furthermore is fundamentally uninteresting and destructive. Nonetheless I could imagine myself (easily) using it before a party. If he was using it any more than episodically I would say that it's truly terrible stuff. So that's how I'd talk about it, and I would say that I was worried for him because of the terrible things the drug does. But I wouldn't have an antidrug stance as such. I would want to know all about his life that he wanted to share with me. But that's easy for me. You are going to have to trust your intuition about when the relationship becomes exploitative and draw the line there. But your grief at his self destruction is your problem that you must bear as best you can. He might be more impressed by that than by an antidrug lecture, so to speak, if this makes any sense,
Declan


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