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re: Question re: Hard Drug Use:
Posted on 4/25/24 at 11:21 am to gumbo2176
Posted on 4/25/24 at 11:21 am to gumbo2176
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My stepson is a junkie. He called a few days ago saying he was once again getting evicted for non-payment of rent and was living with no utilities due to being shut off for the same reason.
This is a 39 yr. old who just can't seem to get his shite together and has been using since his mid 20's. He's lost great paying jobs due to his drug habit and has burned so many bridges over the years that he is basically bad news in his preferred line of work.
As for me and his mother, we are plumb out of sympathy at this point in time because he's living a vicious cycle that keeps repeating itself with the same eventual outcome. He chose that lifestyle, so his failures are all on him. He had a good upbringing, graduated Jesuit High and LSU and was a gifted student academically. Poor personal choices as an adult have led to this.
His days of returning to the house are over after the last time when he was here for 9 months and did absolutely nothing in all that time until I said make some money and get out or he'd find himself on the street with no money-----either way, he was getting out.
I was here 4 short years ago, and your stepson and I are very close in age. I know what hes going through and I am certainly sorry for what you and his mother are going through.
Addicts never ever ever see how much mental damage they are doing to everyone in their immediate circle.
As a matter of fact, that is one of the hardest things when you sober up is living with your decision to live that life.
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Posted on 4/25/24 at 12:03 pm to jizzle6609
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I was here 4 short years ago, and your stepson and I are very close in age. I know what hes going through and I am certainly sorry for what you and his mother are going through.
Addicts never ever ever see how much mental damage they are doing to everyone in their immediate circle.
As a matter of fact, that is one of the hardest things when you sober up is living with your decision to live that life.
It sounds like from the tone of your response you've gotten a handle on the problem and are now doing well, and if so, congrats to you for doing so.
I'm 71 and his mother is 65, and at this stage of our lives we just don't need the drama that comes with HIS problem.
I told his mom years ago when I first realized he was having a drug problem and refusing to seek help to get over it that his addiction is a choice he made as an adult and not of any consequence of what we did raising him.
He had a good upbringing with a stable home life, attended good schools as a youth and was academically gifted--------Unfortunately, he absolutely has no common sense when it comes to making good life decisions.
I'm pretty sure if he ever cleans up his life and kicks the habit, he too will have regrets about a lot of things he's done in life.
Maybe the thought of that is what's keeping him seeking the drugs because facing reality sober can be a pretty daunting thing when he's had a history of using people to the point they no longer want anything to do with him.
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