I couldn't even open this thread for a while. My son left home last weekend...he isn't even quite 17.He went back to the village and the friends he had known when his father was alive.He went back to where he felt he was at home.I am so sad he couldn't settle here with me, I am so sad his life turned out this way,I am so sad that I only had him back again for such a short time,BUT...he is now living life the way he wants to, we now have a relationship where he can come back and know he is welcome and when he was leaving he said "I know I can come home anytime I want to". It was the first time I had heard him call my house home.