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Re: I told my daughter about her dad's drug addiction!

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Kim

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Date Posted: 20:40:27 07/25/06 Tue
In reply to: Shelly 's message, "I told my daughter about her dad's drug addiction!" on 18:41:19 07/24/06 Mon

Shelley,

Thank you for posting that I am toying with the thought of telling my 8 yr old daughter about her dad as well and of myself too. As I was a user myself but no longer my son is 5 he is too young to understand and a big part of me thinks she is as well, would it help her to understand her dads absence from her life someone please help me i feel like she blames me for our separation she has no clue about drugs ... or perhaps she does and i have no clue as to what is going on in her little head. We were together 14 years and separated in January I know that he is still using we have to go for drug screens but they can't find him at all, I go most weeks a couple of times per week. he hasn't seen or spoke to his kids in quite some time now. It is all so very very hard I don't understand how he as a the dad i know can walk out on them like this after being around for their entire lives. To leave me is one thing but why them. Do I tell about our addiction would it help her to understand what happened to us better. I know my kids are better off with me now. They have all of me now since i've been off the dope. This has been by far the hardest thing I have ever had to deal with in my entire life. I am the one doing all the work to try and mend a broken home. To help myself stay of drugs and to get my kids the help that they so desperately need RIGHT NOW! With no help from him in any way. I want them to see him he is not at all a bad dad BUT I have now seen the other side of addiction a side I lost for soooo long and I can never go back to that again and since he has been gone my kids are not around anyone who does that crap and I'm scared for them I'm scared he is going to show up demanding to have the kids and freak out on me.I'M SCARED!
Any advice would be appreciated

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Re: I told my daughter about her dad's drug addiction!	Heather	09:10:37 07/26/06 Wed