OneGreyBiscuit · Today 02:29
I'm currently wide awake at 2.20am stressing about my 19 year old ds. In the past couple of months I've been stressing more and more about him. He left a perfectly good job 10 mins walk away for another and then to be sacked from it within a month for lateness, got another job which didn't even last three weeks because it wasn't for him. Has deferred his driving test which will mean if he fails this one he's got to take his theory again. Has gum disease as he hasn't been brushing his teeth properly and takes no notice of my warnings and has cost me over £400 in private dental treatment. The reason I'm awake is because he's walked in pissed and been sick on my 18 month old carpet, so I'm now awake when I struggle to sleep properly as it is. I'm really struggling to deal with these things and don't know where it's coming from as he always seemed to have a good head on his shoulders until recently. I'm even considering telling him to go live with his dad and let him have some of this stress instead. Just don't know what to do anymore and feel like a piss poor parent
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