October 29, 2018
When my kiddo was 12 he got caught smoking pot with a another kid from our church youth group. To say I was devastated is an understatement. Of course that was his first time and we weren’t going to have Read more…
October 24, 2018
This question is not about my addicted, incarcerated son but rather other parents of addicts. I am not super consistent with my weekly PAL meetings but I’m consistent enough that some of us have been together for a couple of Read more…
October 21, 2018
This sounds like a weird post since this blog is primarily about my son but I couldn’t think of a better way to describe this period of time. Life with my son in his addiction gets so very chaotic. I Read more…
October 15, 2018
Sometimes I don’t know what to do with the anger. Lately I feel like I have finally gotten to the point where I’ve had enough. In the last several years my bar has been set lower and lower for the Read more…
October 13, 2018
Knowing son is in jail is not what I imagined would be the thing that brought me solace but here we are. He’s been there 6 days and in that time I can hear his head clearing, slowly pushing away Read more…
October 11, 2018
I have someone I call a friend that has confided in me about her father’s alcoholism and how it has affected her and her family. She is a grown woman with a husband and children. She is also the oldest Read more…
October 9, 2018
As the mother of an addict, my stomach drops each time I get a text alert or phone call from my son. I also enter panic mode when I don’t hear from him in more than 2 days. Through this Read more…
October 4, 2018
I think I have the same conversation with my son over and over and over. It starts out with a text, after I’ve told him “I’m done”. The text will have some long drawn-out crisis and ends with he’s hungry Read more…
