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Old 06-27-2008, 08:56 AM   #1
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I'm in the same boat Flap you just have to weather the storm.

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Old 06-27-2008, 11:18 AM   #2
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This post could have been mine and from what I read a few others. Daughter graduated high school just last week. Sunday my wife was waiting for her to come home from work to go out to central PA for orientation at a nice small school. Daughter shows up and says she isn't going away to college because she's staying home to be with her boyfriend and then leaves to go sit while he hands out ice cream. This after my wife bent over backwards to get her a decent financial aid package and some pretty good government loans in additionb to what we're also paying. Anyway, the bf isn't a bad kid, but has her wrapped around his little finger and I'm pretty sure pushing her on this. She's the first child and her mother and I spoiled her, so she's also used to getting her way, so that probably doesn't help. She was gung ho on the college from day one and now comes up with every imaginable excuse. As of today, she doesn't want to go, but is going to honor her committment for a year, anyway. She just casn't see the tremendous opportunity she's being given. My wife's popping her anxiety pills like Pez.
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Old 06-27-2008, 03:08 PM   #3
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I'm in the same boat Flap you just have to weather the storm.
Same crap with my 15 year old. Choices get consequences here in my house...but they are not always carried out at her mother's house. Even after she threw a party, and the house was subsequently robbed. (Ex's, not mine) She's in the middle of a two week stay at a camp in Maine right now. We're hoping she gets her "voice" back and uses the break to find herself, without the BF, school, and her girlfriends. (On a good day, high school girls are the worst creatures on the planet....) My first letter to her outlined how when she comes home, she and I are sitting down and deciding the course for the rest of the summer, which will include Sylvan Learning Center, to get her a jump on next year's studies. I did preface the letter by stating how lucky she was to have this opportunity (camp) and that I loved her and looked forward to her return.
Steve, you are blessed with the written word. Maybe try a letter to her?

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Old 06-27-2008, 04:31 PM   #4
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mother and father in law thought I was a looser.. that was 36 yrs. ago.. Old man was my best friend,,even fished the canal with me ,. mother in law always good to me and visa versa.. .. time will tell .. don't get an ulser ..

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Old 06-28-2008, 08:04 AM   #5
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My Sister had a boyfriend that her four brothers nicknamed "Weasel" . He didn't last long, we were on him like mental pitbulls. Never laid a hand on him, just messed with his head. "Got the quick lime, Bob?" " Yeah, where were you when it was time to load it Fred? " "Buying buckshot." " Pat, get that hole dug?" " No I got Jim to do it." " OH. hi Wease, how's it going? Look, I'm sorry but your motor bike hit a tree"....

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Old 06-28-2008, 08:34 AM   #6
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Make sure when you hear the sirens that whoever is tuning him up stops. Misdmeanors are only arrestable when observed.

Take him "chumming"!

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Old 06-30-2008, 04:06 PM   #7
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If she's going away to school - do nothing. In 10 weeks she'll have a host of boyfriends, only you won't see it - so it will be ok. The odds of her townie boyfriend lasting through September are nil.
Or, do your best to break them up, enlist some hitmen, etc, nothing like a Shakespearean tragedy to brighten one's summer.

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Old 06-30-2008, 05:45 PM   #8
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Cool

She attends college in Boston, he in Cambridge (guess where), he had an apartment of his own while at the Big H which he had a lease on until Spetember 1st of this year. My oldest daughter is sub-letting from him while she works her summer internship doing media production for the BU School of Law.

He left Thursday to spend the summer on Nantucket ( a good thing) and won't be back until end of August, a surprise and welcome releif to me and Mom. My daughter is going over to spend the 4th w/ him and his friends and since his departure for ACK has taken on a second summer job at an Inn in town besides her job at MBL in the Hole.

So I am hoping he finds another summer love over there and my kid finds out and dumps him. I did find out he has taken a lease on an apt with two other guys from his school, that's good but the bad news is that it is in the Fenway and that's where my kids school is. But I did warn him that he needs to let her concentrate on school this year or I would hold him personally responsible ( wack wack).

We will see.

Why even try.........
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