How do you know when you've helped enough?
When you've reached your hand out to help an addict but instead of accepting your help, they help themselves to your wallet, the meds in your medicine cabinet or call you up in the middle of the night asking for a place to stay "because the kids are cold" and they were evicted again...I will never forget the day my beautiful niece looked me in the eye and asked me if I could be her mommy....
I'm not surprised it ended this way...but I desperately hoped that it wouldn't. We parted years ago, because we refused to enable you any more and couldn't bare to watch the downward spiral. But it doesn't hurt any less. The fucked up guilt I feel right now, wondering if we had just reached out one more time, would it have mattered? That's far worse than I was prepared for.
I hope that you are at peace now.
I hope that your children don't feel the guilt that I do.
I hope your enablers...your husband and your son...learn from this and save themselves before it's too late. Now that you, the mastermind of their lifestyle, are gone...will they clean up their act?
I loved you like a sister and I will always cherish the good times we had, especially all the times you made me laugh my ass off.
Give Milla a hug and a kiss for me.... Rest in Peace, Kim.