It's time to consider focusing on your son Joshua and let Ricky be seen as the failed relationship that he is.
He'll only come back to you if he truly cracks and it doesn't sound like that's going to happen, so hating your life in favor of him isn't a solution. Its a self-imposed exile from happiness.
It's time to consider focusing on your son Joshua and let Ricky be seen as the failed relationship that he is.
He'll only come back to you if he truly cracks and it doesn't sound like that's going to happen, so hating your life in favor of him isn't a solution. Its a self-imposed exile from happiness.
I'm an atheist so it's all about this life, the only one we get, and clearly Ricky thinks so too simce he's learned to focus on that belief system and not your own godly one. Time to force some acceptance of that upon yourself and write him off like you would a failed marriage if you ever want to enjoy life again. Or maybe you've come to find solace in your self pitying tears?
Greetings, HappySoul, this is the author responding anonymously. Your comment deserves a response. Thank you for your bluntness. Yes, I have been engaged in self-pity, but I am progressing out of that phase and into the milestone where I take action and work toward achieving as much justice and closure as possible. Your last sentence is especially profound because I must not allow my grief to become a crutch. I am not ready, though, to write off Ricky, his sister and our dear grand baby. My wife, Joshua and Ricky's oldest sister (the loyal one) are in that "let's move on" group. They earned respect for their decision by enduring the years of Ricky's slow, tortuous debacle.
I was an atheist for a great bulk of my younger life. I hope you will one day reconsider your own atheism. I cannot boast an ability to persuade you here and now. I leave you with this: For me, belief grew once I accepted the idea that every watch demands a maker; so it is also with creation.
It's time to consider focusing on your son Joshua and let Ricky be seen as the failed relationship that he is.
He'll only come back to you if he truly cracks and it doesn't sound like that's going to happen, so hating your life in favor of him isn't a solution. Its a self-imposed exile from happiness.
I'm an atheist so it's all about this life, the only one we get, and clearly Ricky thinks so too simce he's learned to focus on that belief system and not your own godly one. Time to force some acceptance of that upon yourself and write him off like you would a failed marriage if you ever want to enjoy life again. Or maybe you've come to find solace in your self pitying tears?
Greetings, HappySoul, this is the author responding anonymously. Your comment deserves a response. Thank you for your bluntness. Yes, I have been engaged in self-pity, but I am progressing out of that phase and into the milestone where I take action and work toward achieving as much justice and closure as possible. Your last sentence is especially profound because I must not allow my grief to become a crutch. I am not ready, though, to write off Ricky, his sister and our dear grand baby. My wife, Joshua and Ricky's oldest sister (the loyal one) are in that "let's move on" group. They earned respect for their decision by enduring the years of Ricky's slow, tortuous debacle.
I was an atheist for a great bulk of my younger life. I hope you will one day reconsider your own atheism. I cannot boast an ability to persuade you here and now. I leave you with this: For me, belief grew once I accepted the idea that every watch demands a maker; so it is also with creation.