Yeah, with substance abuse, I can see it. My Dad turned his life around in his early 40's after being an active alcoholic all of his adult and some of his teen life. But when it's an ingrained aspect of their personalities that caused the breach to begin with...I dunno. It has just never worked for me. I can't even say I regret giving the chance, because it was more about how I felt about myself and wanting to try to be forgiving than expectations on either of them. It just turned out to be the wrong thing to do in those cases.
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Date: 2010-08-08 07:19 am (UTC)