Boo - "SWC....so if someone is weak and they turn to alcohol it is a choice, but if they swallow everything presented to them in an online forum, they are "taken"?" Addiction is addiction. I'm all for people doing whatever they choose to make themselves feel better, however, when the "choice" is a destructive one, such as alcohol or abandoning your family
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Has anyone else had experience with them? Any update on the last gentlemen's situation?
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My mom and sister have had an interest in it for some time. My sister's husband and I thought it was just new age fluff. Thursday my sister abandoned her husband and 2 young kids after having blown the savings account on seminars and CD sets and crystals and the like. My mother has always leaned toward the new age stuff, but they managed to suck my sister in, too, which floored us all
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