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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 2493955" data-attributes="member: 34175">If you don't mind me waxing philosophical and becoming your therapist for a bit..Tell him the truth, that you thought life was cruddy and that it wasn't what you thought it should be, but that you made it through by painting your feelings and that helped you.  You don't have to get too deep, and unless he asks more questions, leave it at that. But remember the conversation, because when he reaches that tender age of ick...(we all did) you'll be able to tell him and show him that regardless of how bad it is that he is feeling and how hopeless that the future may seem, to hang on; you did and now you have one of your greatest treasures to show for it, him.  If you had choosen the path of least resistance (ie death) then you would have missed out on all the neat things being a parent has brought you and that he needs to think beyond the now into the what may be so that he too can experience some really neat things.  I've had similar talks with my son (who is now 16 and an extremely moody teenager) so I can undersand what you went through (as a teen) and probably what he's going to go through (because my son is just like me in that respect - moody and broody) so the probability that your son will go through a dark time is pretty solid. Or to be a little more folksy, like beans, this too shall pass. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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