Exit strategies

[tinyjo]

I've been thinking about it recently and it's occured to me that one of my major mechanisms for dealing with bad, difficult or uncomfortable situations is to come up with an exit strategy. That's not to say that I won't be intending to try and improve the situation or turn it around, although of course you can't always. It just helps me to feel more in control and less stressed to know that if I really need to, I can step back, get away, whatever. It takes the pressure off. I think that's one of the reasons I find myself so uncomfortable with the idea of myself as a parent - there's no exit strategy you can really plan there.

I should do a real life update soon, really. I'll get to it, I promise.

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I dunno

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Getting rid of the kids is mostly a factor of external social pressures, assuming one makes up one's mind to get rid of them (one way or another). Heroin, on the other hand, is massively rewarding to the addict, and becomes an all-consuming obsession that has shown to break even the hardest-willed person.*

It would be interesting to compare rates of 'broken' families, outright orphans, foster children ... and that of heroin addiction. I would dare say heroin is the harder dependency.

*And yes, I think there are plenty of unloving, loveless parents out there (in general) to borrow a term.