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My Addicted Daughter Read Your Messages and Was Offended by a Few
This is the mind of an addict
Here is part of what she wrote. She never once mentions me. I feel kind of bad about that. But, I’ve known since the beginning I am not someone she cares about recovering for. Maybe because she knows I’ve always loved her unconditionally.
In her leads, during her 10 years of recovery, she always mentioned hurting and disappointing my mom. My mom had always been her biggest enabler.
My mom’s enabling started when my daughter was 13 and ran away because I told her she had to clean her room. She called my mom, who picked her up and never called me.
I was frantically looking for my daughter all night.
That was just the beginning of my family undermining my authority to enable her. And here is where we are now.
Not one of them ever admitted to or apologized for what they had done.
Many of your notes referred to the “boyfriend” being more important than her children (or me). Since she thinks like an addict she didn’t like that. I told her that was all she mentioned in her note. Her big “heartache” over him🤢
This note is all about her and how she’s suffered.
I appreciate all of your words…
