The Least Restrictive Environment

For people with disabilities one of the most important considerations after self direction is providing them with the least restrictive environment. Up until very recently when Stephanie moved into a motel everyone was in agreement that the least restrictive environment for Alex and Ben is in the house that we are buying for them and having their lives managed by Stephanie and me. But like I said she moved into a motel and has begun to doubt that they are safe alone with me because she doesn’t feel safe alone with me. I continue to maintain that even with her as a part-time parent living elsewhere that this house with mostly just me remains their least restrictive environment. I am also starting to wonder if Stephanie is in her own least restrictive environment. She has less responsibility and complains that I have been trying to control her throughout our marriage. Now she is out there free.

5 responses to “The Least Restrictive Environment”

  1. I will be living in my least restrictive environment when I am living in a home instead of a motel, but the motel is less restrictive than you were when you insisted I needed to work 70 hours a week so you had enough time to play video games.

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    1. Well the hours have flipped. You are not unevenly yoked because we are not yoked at all now.

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      1. It just sucks that unyoking from you was the only way to avoid being unevenly yoked.

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      2. I took you for granted and now you’re gone. That is certainly on me.

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      3. And that is a form of abuse. Taking someone for granted for 28 years is abusive.

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