How Do I Get My Son Off Drugs?

Cavan: filthy, ignorant hillbillies, puritanical papists.
Hobbies: discovering IRA ammo dumps and knitting black balaclavas.

Kerry: stupid but loveable.
Hobbies: Gaelic football, scraping pig foetus off their wellies and chain-smoking.

Wicklow North: sports car driving country snobs (Greystones, Enniskerry)
Hobbies: Sticking their noses in the air and referring to themselves as “one”.

Wicklow South: sheep shaggers.
Hobbies: Sitting in field with their neighbours and talking about the”banjaxed hydraulics on the JCB”, collecting the dole.

Dublin North: criminals, drug dealers and factory workers, easy women, unmarried mothers, skinheads and all-round examples of human waste.
Hobbies: Heroin and watching serial numbers being filed off stolen BMW’s, Doing hand-breakers.

Dublin South: west Brits, snobs, rich, easy glamorous women.
Hobbies: colonic irrigation and sleeping with their best friend’s spouse.

Limerick: violent, racist scum of the earth, knife-wielding prostitutes.
Hobbies: play rugby while stabbing each other with screwdrivers and then complaining about their city’s bad reputation.

Donegal: look down on all-others, aloof.
Hobbies: Turning their noses up at all and sundry

Cork: jealous of Dubliners, highly-sexualized women.
Hobbies: Standing at the side of the Motorway and making smug faces at the cars with Dublin plates.

Tipperary: beautiful pristine girls, hard to get into bed but worth it if you can because that County does not have two different Ridings for nothing!
Hobbies: Getting a flat in Dublin and losing their accents and hoping their parents don’t find out.

Meath: Dublin wannabes.
Hobbies: Beating Dublin at GAA and hoping that one day somebody in Dublin will actually notice.

Galway: sophisticated boggers could be mistaken for a South Dubliner, sexually adventurous, cultured and wealthy. Hobbies: Teaching sex acrobatics to foreign tourists, dropping acid, paying a million pounds for a three bedroom suburban house and pretending it was a bargain.

Kildare: alcoholics.
Hobbies: Waking up in barns with a bottle on one side and hatchet-faced Biddy on the other.

Mayo: Depressing, defeatist, negative, misery-laden losers, emigrate as soon as the umbilical cord is cut.
Hobbies: Dropping a lighted cigarette on his mattress and then being burned alive in a Cricklewood boarding house so he can have his remains flown back to Knock Airport for burial.

Louth: IRA supporters, smugglers and bandits, beautiful girls (Dundalk).
Hobbies: Tearing through Cooley at 125MPH trying to stop the boxes of cheap vodka from falling out the window.

Waterford: decent honest hard-workers generally good folks.
Hobbies: Calling a strike.

Clare: fiddle-playing charming simpletons and, more recently, neo-nazis.
Hobbies: Falling into pot-holes and being never heard from ever again.

Sligo: go-getters, strong sense of free enterprise, likes to make cash.
Hobbies: get rich and b*llix to everything else.

Kilkenny: harmless innocent alcoholics.
Hobbies: Sending their only son to fashion college in Dublin and then wondering why he never brings girls home and why he is always looking in The Brown Thomas catalogue?

Carlow: who cares?
Hobbies: Move to Dublin and then best forgotten about.

Offaly: mad for playing sports and having fun, generally liked.
Hobbies: To win a pub.

Leitrim: Enigmatic reclusive weirdos.
Hobbies: Being absorbed into surrounding counties, quietly.

Longford: Gombeen men.
Hobbies: Legalizing bestiality.

Laois: the real boggers and proud of it generally held in high esteem by Dubliners.
Hobbies: Living an honest life, collecting EU development grants.

Westmeath: Mysterious boggers, cryptic.
Hobbies: Trying, unsuccessfully, to get noticed.

Wexford: selling their “home-grown” organic fruit (bought at supermarket that morning) at the side of the road in summer and ripping-off gullible Dubliners out for a drive in the country.
Hobbies: Ripping off tourists is more than enough.

Roscommon and Monaghan are missing, but sure did anyone notice

My son and his fiancé are looking to get married on the beach in the upper keys. We would have approximately 140 guests. We have a strict budget. A nice beach, a banquet hall that you could bring in your own caterer and alcohol would work for us, or if using the hall’s food, to be reasonably priced. Hiltons and Marriott are just way too expensive. Looking to pay approximately $100.00 pp including state taxes and service fees. Any suggestions?

I know this sounds horrible. But bear with me. He does not work for a living he is 26. He cannot hold down a job because of a life long addiction to drugs.

He has done it all, crack, cocaine, LSD, grass, alcohol etc., we have run ourselves ragged trying to help. Its been years. Been to rehab, been to therapy short term, been back to rehab. It’s been very expensive.

He always needs money because he is hungry, as he does not work. He lied to me the other day and said he needed money to renew his passport, he took it and binged. He lies ALL the time.

He is a very wonderful person underneath it all, and also has emotional issues with his dad who treated him very badly and still does. So he has become super clingy on me his mum.

He needs therapy I think?.But we have no life assurance for him (he’s an adult). I love him to death, but I don’t think my being his constant emotional strength helps him. Plus I am tired. How can I avoid him (as I feel like screaming at him to be honest). In a nice way. Help! (I am currently looking after my dad who has had a stoke so more exhausted than ever.
sorry meant medical insurance, not life assurance typo. Tried tough love did’nt help
Have him arrested? good grief no? and yes mothers do get tired of helping their kids if they are not helping themselves.
Perhaps I did not give enough info. Didn’t want to make it long. Tough love, tried for a year, he was 17 he nearly committed suicide because of it and got worse. Four rehabs, one exclusive one he did well there. We have sent him to loads of courses he wanted to do, he chucked it in. He was ADHD and we did all we could. He is constantly suicidal. I feel he is an adult, so being nice is saying “I no longer have to fight this battle with you” because I refuse to and I also refuse to get into a fight, be hurt by you, or drawn into your drama. To be nice is not to damage him further, but to get on with life without an addict. In a peaceful way. I have two beautiful daughters who are functional. I cannot imagine that I “did this” to my son, that was very cruel and small minded.

My husband is an alcoholic. We have been married 6 years (second). When we met he seemed to be the nicest person and I felt lucky to meet and marry someone I thought would be so good for me.
Things seemed good in the beginning, but after a while his drinking escalated. He drank when we met, but not to excess in front of me.

In front of his friends and family he is “Mr. Nice Guy”. A “funny” drunk. Everybody loves him. He would give the shirt off his back to a stranger. However, at home, he is mean and verbally abusive when he drinks. No hitting. Only I see the “real” him. I am smart enough not to provoke him when he drinks, and even asked him one time when he was sober about getting help. He replied he does not need any help. I am at the point of leaving, and his friends and family think I am “the b-tch”. They have absolutely no idea what he does at home. He is a good actor and they don’t see the violent side that I have to live with. Is this common with alcoholics? How and why would he be good to other people, and horrible to me, the one who loved him so much and put up with his mess ?

If I told his family how he is at home, they wouldn’t believe me and think I am the crazy one! I have a teenage son and I don’t want to expose him to this any longer as it makes him just as nervous.
When the day in court finally comes, I am sure he will be just as charming to the people there and make me out to be nuts. Has anyone ever lived through this? How do you handle it? Thanks in advance.
When i told him I was tired of his going out and getting drunk every night, he asked ME what are my options! I asked him to stop the drinking, but he said he wan’t about to change. So according to him, my options are to stay and deal with it, or we split up. He won’t initiate divorce, he wants me to. I believe it is so that I will come out looking like the “bad guy”.
It’s not so much that I don’t want to be seen as the bad guy-I would like just for once for someone else to see the real him. I think it would help me to validate that I am not really the “crazy” one here.

My son lives with his stepfather and me, but sees his natural Dad once a year, in summer. They talk all the time on the phone. His Dad calls every Saturday. I know my ex is trying to be a good dad, but he isn’t any good at it. He thinks our son is his friend, and tells him stories about how drunk he was at the bar last night, how he got this girl to go home with him, etc, etc. (My ex is an alcoholic who refuses treatment) My son is 14, and is starting to think this is normal dinner table conversation. I tried once to explain to my ex why these bar stories are not apropriate, and he told me I could put my “uptight morality” where the sun doesn’t shine. My son adores his dad, and I really don’t want to put him down, but how can I explain what’s wrong with his dad without sounding negative?

My son lives with his stepfather and me, but sees his natural Dad once a year, in summer. They talk all the time on the phone. His Dad calls every Saturday. I know my ex is trying to be a good dad, but he isn’t any good at it. He thinks our son is his friend, and tells him stories about how drunk he was at the bar last night, how he got this girl to go home with him, etc, etc. (My ex is an alcoholic who refuses treatment) My son is 14, and is starting to think this is normal dinner table conversation. I tried once to explain to my ex why these bar stories are not apropriate, and he told me I could put my “uptight morality” where the sun doesn’t shine. My son adores his dad, and I really don’t want to put him down, but how can I explain what’s wrong with his dad without sounding negative?

So, my MIL comes over the other day, I was at home from work not feeling good (7 months prego). So she says she wants to talk to me about baby sitting the baby when she’s born. She says that my husband already told her no, (she starts crying) and says she totally capable of watching the baby, are we really not going to let her? So I tell her, well we really haven’t talked about it, I don’t know who were going to get to watch the baby.
A little history- this woman only works part time, she is ALWAYS hitting my husband up for money (she’s single) if not him, then his brother. She has mentioned baby sitting to me before, saying “oh well when the baby comes I won’t have to work cause I’ll baby sit the baby”. I always igonored her when she said this. How does she think she’s going to LIVE?
Ok, back to last week. So she tells me well I was thinking I could watch her (Mon – Thurs) and you guys could pay me $150 and you guys will just have to get someone to watch her for Friday. (So I’m thinking in my head, $150 a week or every 2 weeks?) And I was like well I really don’t know, we haven’t talked about it and honestly if I find a family member to watch her, I’m only going to be paying family no more than $50-$80 a week. And she says, oh no I can’t do it that cheap (now I know she means $150 a week). Then she says well I figured if you guys pay a professional day care that you guys will pay more than a hundred! Ahhh hello! She’s comparing her crack head a** to a professional liscenced day care, and still wants to be paid more to watch her only grand daughter (we have a son that she does not watch). I was so appalled, I haven’t even told my husband because I don’t even know how to say it without telling him his mom f*ckin smokes crack on the daily if she thinks were paying her that much to watch our daughter! Am I crazy or is this woman a lunatic? How can I tell my husband, and how can we tell her to go to hell in a nice way… remember she was crying when she was telling me all this! And he’s a sucker for his crying mother!

Sorry so long…..

My son lives with his stepfather and me, but sees his natural Dad once a year, in summer. They talk all the time on the phone. His Dad calls every Saturday. I know my ex is trying to be a good dad, but he isn’t any good at it. He thinks our son is his friend, and tells him stories about how drunk he was at the bar last night, how he got this girl to go home with him, etc, etc. (My ex is an alcoholic who refuses treatment) My son is 14, and is starting to think this is normal dinner table conversation. I tried once to explain to my ex why these bar stories are not apropriate, and he told me I could put my “uptight morality” where the sun doesn’t shine. My son adores his dad, and I really don’t want to put him down, but how can I explain what’s wrong with his dad without sounding negative?

Why can this happen? He lives in another country and when I went to visit him for 10 days, he didn´t have any patience to me at all, he felt stressed with me, even though he just saw me at nights because he works during the day. I know for sure that he is not using drugs anymore and goes to meetings with people that had same problem like him and he is very happy doing this. But my worry is his conduct with me has changed so much. Thanks
Since I knew my son was gay about 10 years ago, I felt guilty and very sad, but after thinking about this reality I said to myself that homosexuality exists, and he is my beloving son (I have to sons) great guy, very sincere and excellent human being. That´s what more matters to me and my husband. He knows we love and admire him always, and the most important thing for us is his happiness. He´s a great architect and loves what he does.