Leann Simpson of SOLVE (www.mha-sf.org) shares her story

[stesim]

... my Bachelor's degree, became a Sheriff's Deputy, and active member of my church and community. Flowers do grow from the ashes as they say. Sadly, Leann's and my communication lines have been down for several years now. She harbors ill will toward me for no known reason. Everyone attributes it to the addiction, and I've had to live with that. It's terrible. I've missed her, and really long to talk with her again... Ah, time heals all they also say. But the older I get the less of it I have.

[stesim]

Thank you Mr. Gregghardin for your supportive comments. As her dad, I forgave her long ago. I fully understand her pain, and can relate to what she has gone through. I struggles through my own drug addction in the early 80's. I realize the pain and suffering it causes family and friends. From it, like her, I turned my life around. I married a wonderfully supportive woman for almost 25 years now, completed ...

[stesim]

Her message is profound for those who are struggling with addiction, but the first course of action in wanting to get help is to talk to those who love you. She did not.

[stesim]

Her family was continually supportive and nurturing toward her in her growing years. Their only guilt rests in the way they enabled her by not seeing the warning signs. She became involved with drugs because of peer pressure at an early age. We, as her family have mixed emotions. While we are happy she turned her life around, and may be an inspiration to others, we maintain a position of unparalleled sadness by the way she treated us then, as now.

[MrGregghardin]

@stesim I am so sorry that she treated you badly. You deserved so much better. Try to understand where she is comiing from though. She is in a lot of pain and she took it out on you, as is pretty much expected for someone suffering so. Try to forgive her. You can still help her by loving her and listening to her story. There is no reason for guilt or pity for her. You did nothing wrong.