Hi Ozzie A friend of mine eventually found tough love with her son, as like you she was piggy in the middle. New OH, and two younger children to shield, so after many chances she bravely and with a heavy heart kicked her son out. Now two years down the line and he is twenty he is finally straightening out, holding down a job, paying his own rent and babysitting for his mum. Tough love worked for her, she sat him down told him she hated what he was doing to himself, to her and his two little brothers, told him she would always love him but was setting him free to make his own decisions good or bad and finally that, he would always be her child but that if one day he could come to her and say "mum Im done" and that honestly be the case, she would never say another word. Those words have been said, she only bought him food, never gave him money,never bailed him out and never nagged at him, but constantly kept contact with him. Ozzie as you know it (parenting) is the hardest job you will ever do and you sound as though you intend to keep trying, you just need some galvanizing to keep going, my best wishes go to you all, onwards and upwards girl! x Anj
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