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For real? Made your skin crawl?
Not meaning to put down your opinion, Cherry. Perhaps you have good reason in your experience to say this.
But for me, the implication I get from this statement is that his mother must not have cared, or wanted to be bothered by SW or his problems.
That if she did care, none of this would have ever happened.
Perhaps that's true. No one knows. We have no idea of the relationship between her and SW.
But I think there's a greater chance she DID care, and cared deeply. Being a therapist is not a magic wand to make her own son's problems go away.
I bet if she could have waved that wand, she would have. Being a therapist conferred no special powers over SW.
In fact, being a therapist may have actually created a wedge in SW's mind as he was growing up. He may have become more defiant. He may not have wanted to be 'understood' by his therapist mother.
In his eyes that could be giving her the upper hand. That's how kids are sometimes.
The professional 'labels' can actually give a kid a stronger incentive to rebel. Think of the stories of the 'Preacher's Kid' we've all heard. The Accountant's kid who ends up declaring bankruptcy.
Maybe she turned over every stone looking for help for him over the years.
We don't know. That's the bottom line. We just don't know.
We can't sleuth the family either. So unless we ever learn differently from MSM, I am just going to send her some kind thoughts...
JMO