It is the end of the week, and I am mentally exhausted. This is consistantly what it feels like to have a teen in an RTC, there truly is never a great week. When they are doing well - you miss them and anxing over the preparations for a home visit. When they are NOT doing well – you are beating your head against the wall trying to figure out what is going on and what is going wrong. For us, these past few weeks, our son has refused to communicate. I have heard about this from other families but in my months of RTC have not experienced it. My teen son has always been overly friendly. Has it always been real? That is another question. The lack of communication right now is heartbreaking.
We are struggling and I know he is struggling, but there is nothing, I, the parent, can do about it. Of course there was nothing I could do about it when he was home. For teenagers parents are the least important factor in their lives and for some parents our kids / family are everything. Now is the lesson of detachment, don’t react, take care of yourself. Hah! Easy to say and then you are told “keep the doors open you need to be there for them”! Don’t close the doors of communication, sometimes I want to lock those doors. For these reasons I am exhausted. What a vicious cycle, right now my crystal ball is cloudy. This too will pass, have a great weekend.
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