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[quote=Anonymous]We have also been through a tough path. Not identical to yours, but tough. Ours involved drugs, violence, graduated from HS but not moving forward at all. It was all a downhill spiral until he hit bottom, like your daughter. I’m sorry for what you’re going through. It’s painful.

What we did was we became our son’s people. We plan things together as a family and have worked to find mutual interests. We get him out of the house to go to the gym multiple times a week. We play cards after dinner just about every time we eat together. We try to find shows we all like but that’s hard to be honest. We make family events out of each sports event for our youngest kids and all show up. We all went to drop a sibling kid at college to show our support - because we all support each other. We celebrate every holiday - like our made up let’s decorate for Halloween day. We try new recipes together. My kids do things together when we parents aren’t around - like play cards mostly but they have come to enjoy each other. We’ve also got him into community college and turns out he’s really good at college when he has our support. And we have him working a few part time jobs.

I can’t manufacture friends. But I can work to avoid isolation. It’s exhausting sometimes but, like you, we are committed to our child’s (well all our kids’) success.

Good luck OP. I’m going to follow this thread for ideas. We have had amazing success but i am really hoping to hear from others who can give us more ideas. [/quote]

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