I can’t imagine what it must be like for you. Jeremiah 29:11 always brings me hope, perhaps it will you as well. I saw your post on PITT today and my heart breaks for your family. I pray your daughter will return to you soon. The burden that you and other parents carry is always on my heart and in my prayers.
The anger that you express toward your daughter is a good thing for your mental health (your last paragraph). The grief at the beginning is absolutely unbearable as it's almost like a "death". Once you get past the anger phase, you will find a strange kind of peace in your new reality/life while waiting for the fever to break. I too, choose to remember the daughter that I once had because those memories are dear and precious and grounded in reality and love. I hope your daughter returns to sanity and returns home.
I am so sorry for your grief. The title caught my eye, because I too lost my mother (to death) and my son (to the cult) in the same month. The last time I saw my son was at my mother's funeral 4 years ago. What makes it even harder is that as a single parent my mother and father were like second parents to my children. My son didn't even come to see his grandmother in the last year of her life because he was so caught up in this monstrous cult and fixation on identity and grievances. God help your child and mine.
I can’t imagine what it must be like for you. Jeremiah 29:11 always brings me hope, perhaps it will you as well. I saw your post on PITT today and my heart breaks for your family. I pray your daughter will return to you soon. The burden that you and other parents carry is always on my heart and in my prayers.
The anger that you express toward your daughter is a good thing for your mental health (your last paragraph). The grief at the beginning is absolutely unbearable as it's almost like a "death". Once you get past the anger phase, you will find a strange kind of peace in your new reality/life while waiting for the fever to break. I too, choose to remember the daughter that I once had because those memories are dear and precious and grounded in reality and love. I hope your daughter returns to sanity and returns home.
I am so sorry for your grief. The title caught my eye, because I too lost my mother (to death) and my son (to the cult) in the same month. The last time I saw my son was at my mother's funeral 4 years ago. What makes it even harder is that as a single parent my mother and father were like second parents to my children. My son didn't even come to see his grandmother in the last year of her life because he was so caught up in this monstrous cult and fixation on identity and grievances. God help your child and mine.