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Quoting hardtopickname:
Nature. What are you going to do? You could sit him down and give him the inquisition. One of those nice soft talks about your daughter and how sweet she is and that she's the apple of your eye, tender moments, moments of pride. The set up. End it with the "don't break her heart" but say it with the look in your eye that finishes the sentence with "-if you do, I'll break your legs".
If the talk happens, conveniently, while you're cleaning hand guns, that adds a special touch and an ambiance that can't be beat with a bat.
Of course, realistically speaking, all you can really do is simply be there for her when the breakup happens. Inevitably it will.
One of my daughters is 19. She's been active for a few years now. She lives away and is working her way through university. We've talked very frankly about things since she was 14. The first big breakup was easy to figure out. She went on and on about this guy, who was a nice guy. So after enough badgering on my part about what was going on and why she was so upset and distant she finally admitted what was happening. So like any other occasion we talked about it. Come to find out she was heartbroken over the situation that she was honest enough to admit she caused. They had been a steady item for 3 years. She was the one that strayed. She was also honest enough to admit that she did so purely out of lust. Well that certainly helped us determine that maybe she just isn't ready for a committed relationship. Being in the first few years of college I reinforced the messages from before; use protection always, be safe and more than anything else for Christ's sake, be picky about who you choose to shack up with, don't miss a doctor's appointment and last but not least, would it kill you to pick up a phone and call once in a while!?! (Come to find out, I'm at least 1/6th Jewish Mother.. Who knew?)
Lucky for me I get to pull duty with both daughters and sons. My oldest boy is to be 15 in October. Just like the daughters, he too has the rules, what is acceptable, what is not, what will prevent him from getting a barrel of rock salt in his ass and how to spot a little bit of crazy to save him a lot of trouble.
The best you can hope for is that she talks to you and can tell you what's going on. You, through experience can listen for red flags that she in her youth and inexperience cannot yet detect.
All the best!
Nature. What are you going to do? You could sit him down and give him the inquisition. One of those nice soft talks about your daughter and how sweet she is and that she's the apple of your eye, tender moments, moments of pride. The set up. End it with the "don't break her heart" but say it with the look in your eye that finishes the sentence with "-if you do, I'll break your legs".
If the talk happens, conveniently, while you're cleaning hand guns, that adds a special touch and an ambiance that can't be beat with a bat.
Of course, realistically speaking, all you can really do is simply be there for her when the breakup happens. Inevitably it will.
One of my daughters is 19. She's been active for a few years now. She lives away and is working her way through university. We've talked very frankly about things since she was 14. The first big breakup was easy to figure out. She went on and on about this guy, who was a nice guy. So after enough badgering on my part about what was going on and why she was so upset and distant she finally admitted what was happening. So like any other occasion we talked about it. Come to find out she was heartbroken over the situation that she was honest enough to admit she caused. They had been a steady item for 3 years. She was the one that strayed. She was also honest enough to admit that she did so purely out of lust. Well that certainly helped us determine that maybe she just isn't ready for a committed relationship. Being in the first few years of college I reinforced the messages from before; use protection always, be safe and more than anything else for Christ's sake, be picky about who you choose to shack up with, don't miss a doctor's appointment and last but not least, would it kill you to pick up a phone and call once in a while!?! (Come to find out, I'm at least 1/6th Jewish Mother.. Who knew?)
Lucky for me I get to pull duty with both daughters and sons. My oldest boy is to be 15 in October. Just like the daughters, he too has the rules, what is acceptable, what is not, what will prevent him from getting a barrel of rock salt in his ass and how to spot a little bit of crazy to save him a lot of trouble.
The best you can hope for is that she talks to you and can tell you what's going on. You, through experience can listen for red flags that she in her youth and inexperience cannot yet detect.
All the best!
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