Guys, sometimes I post anon and sometimes I don't. But don't be so hard on M. When I first started on this site after never talking about CEDU for 15 years, some of the posts by Roy, Jack, and Max helped out in terms of being vindicated about this experience. I split--so I was cut off from ever talking about it with people who actually lived through the experience. I had my own thoughts on the place but I honestly felt like everyone thought CEDU ws the second coming of Christ. All along I'm thinking this is a crappy school, crappy therapy, and mental and verbal abuse by pople who have no idea what therapeutic means. I ws happy as a pig in shit to just work my ass off in work detail so I didn't have to deal with BS "therapy." Actually, the wilderness stuff and work details (digging ditches, pipelines, running wheel barrels filled with logs for half a mile and back over and over again were the best therapy CEDU offered me. I was such a lameass girl with a fragile image too afraid to do anything for failure that putting all my energy into hard work was the only thing therapeutic for me. That and splitting did wonders for the old "fragile" gal mindset.
Anyway, I digress. Sorry. I guess healthy dissent is a good thing, but I'd sincerely like it if you guys had a dialogue about it then a one-up battle. Keeps us stronger, too. I genuinely care about the people on these posts even though the Internet breeds almost a pseudo-intimacy.
I mean Hell freaked me the hell out too until I read more and saw more nuances. I came to understand him a lot better.
And honestly, it I was worried when B. gave a shout out to all the splitting kids. 'Cause I honestly feel it would play right into CEDU's hands and you have two beautiful children to be there for. I am a single mom of two small children too, and they would be lost without their father.
Actually I just thought of something. We should do a what to do/ not to do when trying to split. A "How To"....for both RS and RMA. Maybe the kid can have our phone numbers so the parents can call us as adults so we can verify what their kid is saying.
PEACE OUT!