Reply To: Going off the Derech

Well, the simcha is now behind us, and the last of my family leaves today. We hardly saw my son the whole time. He sleeps out almost every night, comes home rarely, or only to sleep. He had no school for a week bc of the war, and he spent all that time wih his chevra. I’m not joking when I say that when I saw him yesterday, I thought he grew about an inch since I last saw him. Various shlichim have reached out to him, but he pushes everyone away in order to be with his chevra. Unless he has the inner strength/self esteem to do things without them, I don’t see how he’ll ever make good decisions. He tells everyone who will listen that he hates the Haredim, but meanwhile his OTD chevra controls him.