When my child was less than a year old (though I had nearly twelve years in) I left the Marines to not be an absentee parent.
Your quip at me affects me to zero degree.
You and your spouse each made a choice.
It had really huge consequences for each member of your family.
Neither of you chose your son.
Yes there are clueless idiots.
Some cluelessness costs people’s children more than they should have to pay.
My car and my home have been burglarized three times since I moved to Texas. Zero parents who focused on their careers over their addict kids bother me when they get mad that I feel that the consequences of addicts continued usage reaches its predictable conclusion makes my life safer upset me.
No matter what job it was that they chose over their children.
I work the twelve step program together with some people who are addicts in a generic twelve step program.
I care about them. But they aren’t all going to get better. Some of them have stolen from me when I have given a ride to work or taken them out to eat.
Then there are the hardcases that have no interest in stopping what they are doing. They won’t work any type of program. They won’t hold a job. They won’t even bathe regularly, or tone their language down around kids and or stop making crude passes at everyone who strikes their sexual fancy. None of them are really a loss. Only God can fix them.
Well talk about doubling down on nasty, you made a big ASSumption about our lives and how we raised our child, didn’t you? Feel justified now that his death was our fault and his life was no great loss to society?
I hope you kid learned compassion from someone because it isn’t something it seems like you could model
God Bless
and may your beloved child never make a bad decision that costs them their life and have someone blame your parenting for it