release myslf wrote:
They (his family) thinks that I am his savior because when he is with me is the only times he's been halfway clean. We have all been on this merry-go-round for 25 yrs.
Wow, what an impossible responsibility they put on your shoulders!!! A responsibility that rightfully belongs to them to SOME degree. Of course, they don't want you off the merry-go-round....that would leave them with no one to shrug it off on. Sick people don't like their dynamics disturbed....it shed's light where they've worked hard to keep it dark.
Cosign!!!!!

And they are deeply religious.......they simply don't understand the concept of tough love. Every single time the man has ever went to jail (numerous times - with 5 prison terms) they have paid GOBS of money to get him home. Every time his father and I talk he tells me that is his baby boy and as long as he is breathing he has to have hope that he will get clean.
This is soooooooooo very sad.....because in reality, they are helping to kill him.

Hell.....I promised his mother on her death bed 2 yrs ago that I would never leave him again. I promised that woman on her death bed that I would take care of her men (husband and boys).
Ya' know what Gina? This can all be about interpretation........it ALL depends on what you consider helping is? You are taking care of him.....by standing up for yourself and being ONE LESS person who enables him and tends to his shyt!!! You may be the ONLY person in his life who FINALLY, TRULY helps him.
Cosign again!!!


Hey, seahorse...I hope you are doing well.
I am smiley: smile