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After these talks, I look at my face in the mirror and see someone much older and sadder than me, but it's me.

I showered and watched the hair that is coming out stick to my hands and flow with the water down the drain.

I have reached the end of my rope with my son's father. This rope is noose. There is no happy medium here, nowhere near meeting in the middle, I know he wants to die. He is hurting our son emotionally. He is hurting his self worth. He is a neglectful parent.

Any choice I make will devastate our son. I can't decide if the stress of him is more difficult than trying to do everything completely alone again. Both are awful.

It's all so unfair to our son. I have been trying to make up for it for many years. The lack of family and stability. I have tried everything.

I am becoming the sad old woman in the mirror and I just want to be a good mom. I cannot be enough and I wish for once that someone would come into our life and not turn into dead, dragging weight.
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being · 36-40, F
You are enough. You give him a lot. You do all that you can. None is perfect ever and none had the perfect childhood either.

What helps sometimes is to make a list of ten. I do it when I can. Count ten blessings regarding the situation. If you are there. If the thought isn't settling, let it.

I appreciate you and what you give to your son. Different things and values than most. Embrace it. Embrace your difference. I know of how you want him integrated and not the odd one out.
But he has a life of his own. He's going to figure life out when time comes in his own way.

I used to date this guy, his parents were old school hippies and naturist that bought land in Greece and put a trailer on it. He turned up to be a businessman of some sort. Partially because he rebelled and partially because he was given all the confidence in the world.

Believe in yourself. Believe in the confidence you are giving your young man, the confidence that there is a horizon out there and life can has so many directions. Freedom, choice.
See it. And rest...
I'm jealous of having a shower :))