Posted by HomelyCygnet on January 13, 2014, at 14:10:21
In reply to Re: Conversion Hysteria (or whatever they call it now), posted by jono_in_adelaide on January 12, 2014, at 21:13:55
Sounds like SLS. Do you think if they took away his "disability" and subsidised apt he would get off his butt and get a job?
Actually it sounds like Alex too. Would tough love work for her?
I suppose it's partly society's fault but it's sad to see these two settle for a life as parasite.
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> I dont hold out much hope - I think he has spend so long in the role of an invalid, using this non existant illness as an excuse for his every failiure in life, that the pattern would be extremely hard to break.
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> I think a good start would be some tought love - sit him in a chair, with food and water on the other side of the room, alone, and instead of his wife pushing him to the table in a wheelchair, let him get hungry enough that he gets there under his own locomotion.
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> I should porbably just give up, but he's my oldest friend, and its damned hard to see him like this
Duckling I listen and for many a time I have been half in love and many a time much more
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