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Audiofuzzy said:maybe some do I don't know,
parents I know personally worry equally about their children regardless their sex.
It just that as I've said already with boys you worry about something more, girls something else more.
It is simply more likely that boys might get into fights, extreme sports ect,
girls into too much bad gossip, how they look competition, thinking too much about boys etc.
Don't you know that girls could be tomboy?
Don't you know that boys could be gossip ?
Example: I remember Danny was upset on other day and told me that he found out his friend is 2 faced to him which he thought his friend is his true friend.
No matter what they acts but they still treat equal.
Again I am not sure if I get you, but..
Tracy's story is only an example what may happen to any girl if she is unlucky enough to meet and love a wrong boy.
It really doesn't matter what exactly has happened because the point is- she was abused. It ended badly.
The question Mooki asked - what if the mother took restraining order against Tracy's boyfriend?
then whatever happened, would NOT have happened.
there would be no Tracy's bad BF, no bad marriage, nothing. that is the Mooki's point, IMO.
Tracy's life would have been very different.
Mookie says: look at Tracy as na example - to show what can happen if the parents DO NOT get RO early enough.
Then it may be too late someday to do anything.
Yes I get what you or Mookie said but it makes no sense to me. I think you didn't get what I try to explain.
I explain again...
How could you know that Tracy's future husband is gentleman before she married him? Sure, Tracy would of not marry him in first place if she knows he is abusive. Look an example about my step-dad.
yes of course I do know that but in the link it says clearly:
""He is not physically abusive that
I know of, but he does not allow her to have any friends, and the
occasional times he works he "puts" her at his house to stay with his
mother until he gets off from work.""
oooooh that's bad sign, bad bad bad.....
I would suggest you to read the whole to end in my link. A mother is glad that she did not do that and realized that word is mainly important than get RO. She admitted part of her mistakes for control her daughter's boyfriend. If her daughter is happy with him then is her choice, not mother. They still are together for over 16 months now. She like her daughter's boyfriend and find him nice. I agree with mother's comment that age difference is not important role to her.
mother's post
I will repeat that their age difference is not an issue with me; he is 19 and she is almost 17, that's not so huge a difference. I really like him and
he treats her well,
and this might seem minor but it has potential of evolving into something more serious:
""a simple thing
like the other day when I brought home suishi, and Katie was eagerly
going to have some, and because you don't like suishi you said you
wouldn't kiss her if she ate it, so she tried to hand it back to me.
That's controlling! But in a very mild way... you scare her by
withdrawing your approval of her.""
Huh? My husband hate smell of garlic or onion in my mouth and don't want to kiss me. I do not take his word serious. I didn't know that you took it serious. It has nothing do with controlling, that's just they don't like smell or see the ugly food. Of course they would kiss on next day...
I think the mother's instinct is telling her the boy is not to be trusted, and she could be right..
Fuzzy
Disagree... The parents often make mistakes. Not alway right. The children will never learn but will go to wrong path if you overparent, overreact, overprotect them.