We haven't as yet booked a holiday for the bank holiday week, the last one put me off a bit and I'm fed up of Filey tbh.
So browsing round holiday lettings I found a possibility on the Isle of Wight.
We haven't been there since ds was seven when we had the most awful time on record. I came back black and blue because ds was the most violent he had ever been and was totally unmanageable for a whole fortnight.
We came home early and we were all shell shocked tbh because we couldn't see a way forward.
But times have changed, I can handle ds far better now, I don't believe he'd ever hit me again and so have broached the subject.
Ds unbelievably can remember minute details of last time and is considering it (means most likely a yes tbh) I can prepare him in two weeks and dd (18) knows that we will need to be very flexible to keep ds calm. Dd's (8) anxious but I can help her with that.
It's just me really, that last holiday there nearly killed me, we considered shared care for ds and the others were traumatised not only because of ds attacking them but them seeing him attacking me (I always got the worst of it )
So what do you think? Could I do it? It won't be as bad as last time will it? Would you?
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insanityscatching · 13/08/2011 13:38
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