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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This may feel urgent to you OP because you just heard about it but has been your mom's life for a couple months.

What does your mom want to do?

Does she want to move across the country? Does she want to get connected to services where she is? Does she just want to get her truck fixed and carry on for now?[/quote]

I agree. I’m the PP who talked about some things not adding up and having been in similar circumstances. No judgment, but I’m not sure there will be an easy happy ending.

I don’t think you should have her move in based on the information you’ve given us, for two weeks or otherwise.

My advice when dealing with something like this is to independently verify every piece of information you’re given. That will help you assess whether or not your emotional energy and attention to the issue is in proportion to what the other person is willing to do.

I believe it could be very difficult to get services in some places, or it might be that the person isn’t ready or able to comply to the terms of receiving those circumstances.

It seems likely that substance use is involved here. I’m really sorry. But you do need to protect your school age children first. Otherwise I wouldn’t speculate. It seems like she has some resources, and this is a situation she has been involved in for a little while. Dropping the information on you could be a few things and your gut will probably tell you what it is in context. It could be extending an olive branch and a willingness to turn things around, it could be emotional vampire stuff, it could be an effort to secure more immediate resources (money). Addiction can be a terrible disease but there is a point where it’s reasonable for you to protect yourself. [/quote]

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