Sometimes my daughters' mood swings, are terrible, so selfish, so self absorbed, and certainly no compassion for anyone. Sometimes she hates the world. Its all everyone elses fault.
Sometimes, I think it goes deeper than just teenage rebellion, if this is anything like what our MLCers are going through, then I quite understand.
I get the feeling, daughter is suffering from depression, a feeling of abandonment by her mother. She changes her clothes 5 times a day, cleans her room spotless, and then promptly destroys her good work, and it is a pigstye in the matter of minutes.
I have suggested, we see a doctor, or someone to talk to, but she claims there is nothing wrong with her. Sound familiar?
She has a P/T job in a sandwich bar, which gives a feeling of self worth. She does not know that I pay them to pay her! Trouble is she has yet to complete a full week, cant wake up. So she has flately refused to go to school, and now refuses to go to work at times. But things are getting better slowly.
I remember saying to my wife to "buck up" once, and she nearly bit my head off. "Dont say that, my father used to tell me to buck up". I can now understand why, and understand that she was probably just left to get on with it.
Little snippets that I have heard from my daughter about her visit.
Readers may remember, that wife took daughter for a navel piercing, when she was 13, against my wishes. Now daughter expressed a desire for a piercing through her lip. Wife told her to "Go for it".
Shame, Daughter has inherited her fathers good looks, she is gorgeous, and now wants to disfigure herself.
The selfishness continues, at a supermarket, daughter picked up a bar of chocolate, lip protector stick thingy, and something else, could not have been more than a pound 50. Wife said "shall we pay separately". Daughter was gob-smacked.
She could not even treat her daughter after not seeing her for 6 months!
Life for me is terrific, work is great, and I am amased at the number of people who love me.
Oh well, they will just have to form an orderly queue and judged on merit.
You should really get her to go anyway Simes. Convince her, use her mom as an example. Sounds mean. F it; no such thing as a fair fight, fair means you lose.
I am glad that you are doing well. And I don't have the time to stand in your silly English Q. : )
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn. - C.S. Lewis
Life is usually all about how you handle Plan B. - Jack3Beans
Listen without defending; Speak without offending - FaithinAK
I do keep chipping away at her, but DBing now ingrained, I do wonder about leaving her alone. When I mention her mother, or any similarity, she goes balistic.
