Therion, you asked, "Do any of you guys think maybe Straight should have been for our parents?"
That's a good one! My dad would have never survived. He would have been the phaser always in a "pity party" (Can't remember the last time I said that) and always getting confronted. I can just hear him saying, "I chose not to accept what you are saying to me." ::noway:: He probably would have been started over several times.
Back in the early '80's there was a little saying among the parents when they asked each other how they were doing- they would say, "Oh, I'm somewhere in between compliance and defiance..." Of course, this was never said around staff for fear of being confronted in a parents rap for not "working their program" (Haven't said that in awhile either).
I bet most parents leaned more towards defiance and I'm sure many felt resentment towards us because WE put the family in Straight due to our drug use. Well, Mom and Dad, I DID NOT choose to go to Straight. YOU made that choice when YOU lied to get me there!
Oh, I almost forgot- Dad you're started over for breaking the first AND most important rule and I want you to write a searching and fearless moral inventory about it...::deal:: HA,HA,HA, HA,HA,HA,HA,HA,HA,HA,HA...
[ This Message was edited by: gduncan on 2004-01-30 17:45 ]