Reply To: Going off the Derech

Imaofthree-at this point, I would definitely consider giving him his own room. But today was such a disaster, I don’t think he wants to live with us anymore. He was very chutzpadik to me in front of my mother, and she got very upset with him. We had already been having a little disagreement, and he thought he could get my mother to ‘side’ with him. Instead she got quite angry at him, and the whole thing ended pretty badly. I tried to smoothe things over with him a bit later, but he just seems to hate me right now, and I have, once again, become the enemy who ruined his whole life. Between the war outside my home, and the war inside, I feel like I’m functioning in a daze. When you say that one day, he will grow up and mature, what does that mean exactly? That he will no longer see me as as enemy?