Reply To: Going off the Derech

I know we were told that things would get worse before they get better. But how much worse? Every time I try to speak to my son, he tells me he doesn’t want to hear me. When I asked him when I can talk to him, he said ‘never’. He said he doesn’t want to hear me, and that me and my husband should die. I know the focus is not supposed to be on my pain, but rather on my son’s suffering. But I can’t figure out what happened that caused me to suddenly become my son’s enemy? I tried to ask him this question, saying that I am the same mother that I’ve always been for the past 16 years, that I’m not the one who changed. I don’t know how we are going to live as a family this way. He now stays out all night, coming home around 9am. After he eats a bunch of snacks, he then plays with his computer for a few hours. Then, he sleeps all day, even into the evening, only to repeat this scenario. What should I expect from this point on, and where do I go from here?