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Back To Index S24 SITUATIONS & LESSONS NO. 24 - A 3O YEAR OLD CHILD
Both Froso and her husband Haralambos experience inner and outer conflict because their thirty year old son has not yet become economically independent. Their son still lives with them, does not work, goes out drinking and dancing every night and comes home between 4 and 5 in the morning just before his parents get up to go to work. Every time they talk to him about this problem, he agrees to do something about it but never does. When they pressure him more intensely, he plays the victim, "since you do not love me or care about me, I'll leave and stay with my friends or on the streets." Or sometimes, he shouts and demands that he be given one of the family's two apartments, just like his friends families have done. He considers that this is their responsibility, that they owe him this apartment, because he is their son. In general his perception is that he has all rights but no responsibilities. But he is not totally to blame. His parents and the surrounding society have programmed him in this way. His parents, having passed through the "occupation" and difficult times, didn΄t want their children to go without anything, nor to work during their childhood or university years. Allowing the children to work before graduating from university would have been a sign of economic failure and shame for the family. Now they have created a monster who wants to be taken care of and not work at all. Another of their mistakes is that they did everything for him. They created for him a reality in which others would solve his problems. This programmed him to doubt his ability to cope with life by himself. These doubts made him afraid of working, because he might fail. He preferred to engage in activates in which he felt successful and capable, social life. He too rejected himself for his inability to get his life together. He hated that he was dependent on his parents, and thus never ever expressed gratitude for all that they gave him. He considered that all that they gave him was in reality his curse. His parents of course felt deeply abused and used. They had given all their lives to offer him this economic comfort and he was wasting it and was not only not grateful, but angry and abusive in addition. They felt hurt, depressed and also angry. Froso could not express her anger and played the role of the victim, often becoming ill and blaming her son for this. Haralambos could express his anger and his disgust, something which their son would ignore at first. He would also occasionally get into a counter intimidator role. They would shout intimidating each other until Froso would get between them crying and begging them to stop. This situation was having its toll on the couple's relationship. They would frequently fight about what they should do. Both of them had a part which believed they should stop supporting him and ask him to find an apartment. Yet both of them also had a part which feared this very much, because he was their child, and if something happened to him, if he took to drugs or committed suicide, or became harmed in any way, they would never be able to forgive themselves. Even thought they each had both parts in them, Haralambos expressed the part which said, we are not helping him by letting him stay, we must stop supporting him while Froso would express their common fears. It appeared that were fighting with each other, but they were really fighting with parts of themselves. They were all unhappy. What do Froso and Haralambos need to learn to get free from this nightmare? What does their son need to learn to get on with his life? Froso and Haralambos: Could they need to learn some of the following lessons: That their child is an immortal soul in the process of evolution and is capable of surviving by himself? To accept and love him as he is with these weakness? To be more firm with him and not help out financially any more since he is able to take care of himself? To become his friend and help him understand what is blocking him? To affirmation to him his abilities, which means to also stop worrying about him? To free themselves from fears about what others will think about them if their child does not succeed? To free themselves from the fear of what will happen if they stop helping their child (what others will think, whether he will make it not, whether he will stop loving them.)? To realize that their child houses God's divine power, and is actually God's child not theirs, and to leave his protection to God? To ask the child to help them to discover what is the best thing for them to do at this point? To overcome their own fears about survival and safety? To overcome their own need for affirmation from society as measured by their relative success? To let their child know that they love him is unconditionally whether he succeeds or not? That their child is God's child and has all the powers of the universe behind him for his survival and success? To place their child in God's all powerful hands? That life is giving them and their child exactly what they need for the next steps in their growth process? To have faith in the divine plan and what it brings moment by moment? Their Son: Could he need to learn some of the following lessons: That he is capable of coping with world and succeeding professionally and economically? That creating something is often more enjoyable and fulfilling than just playing around? That his parents do not owe him anything and that it is his turn to produce and offer? That he is the sole creator of his reality and that only he can create the life he wants to live? To accept himself as he is and let go of what others think about him? To get free from his parents' programmings about money, success and what society thinks? To become more responsible and caring for his parents? To do to others as he would like them to do to him? To express his love to his parents? |
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