dontwakemamabear
"I can't be in a relationship with you if it means I have to interact with your mom in any capacity, and it's about more than her interaction with me, it's how she treats you, too."
Ex-boyfriend's text to my daughter when she suggested hanging out before she leaves for the summer.
In the three months since she'd broken up with him, they'd hung out as friends, and she thought this time would be no different. Things went awry when he told her he still cared about her and wanted to be with her, and then this text. Me? I knew he wasn't crazy about me. I talked to him about his drug use (apparently no one else had). I talked to him about getting tested for STDs (apparently no one else had). And about never, ever endangering my daughter (apparently no other parent had). And I wouldn't let my daughter spend the night at his house (apparently no one in his world--including his mom--cared). So yeah. But how I treat my daughter? Seriously? She has a job, goes to school, pays most of her own expenses, including food, phone, car insurance, clothes, contacts, and has since she began working at 15. So, the "way" I treat her, aside from not letting her spend the night at his house, is that she gets to make her own decisions. Sometimes they are really, really horrendous ones, and it breaks my heart. But they're HER decisions and she learns some tough lessons. And if that's how I "treat" her, then I suppose I'll have to live with it. And Mike? Well, hewokemamabear
