Daughter has been lying to me!

DoinSchool
Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:12:31 +0000

OP -

In my opinion, you are going down a bad path. You need to realize that your daughter is growing up into a woman and needs emotional space. She is not just an extension of your feelings. The things you say are eerily similar to things my own mother said and she ended up (literally) driving herself crazy. That’s all I’m going to say about my own personal experience; I think what you should do is sit down and talk with your daughter, and confide to her that you DO trust her judgment. I know it’s hard to let go, but you have to. and while you think that your daughter needs to earn YOUR trust, maybe if you let her develop on her own without being so judgmental it will be YOU who earns an honest and open relationship with her after she learns that she can have adult conversations with you without feeling persecuted.