daughter is blaming us

Murphles
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:19:10 +0000

So I need some advice counsel and wisdom. Darling D applied to three art schools and was accepted at all three. We visited and when she was accepted into her stretch school, we rejoiced. It appears to offer an educational opportunity head and shoulders above the others. She decided she wanted to go to School B, as far as we could tell because that is in the city where her boyfriend wants to go in a year when he graduates from HS. The programs are essentially identical in the first year-Foundation. So she agreed that she would go and we agreed that if stretch school was not a good match-she could transfer. Now it is the next week, and she is attacking us saying we manipulated her into the school she does not want to go to. This is a girl who is a homebody and calls me 8 times daily. Now she is virulently angry and I am in tears. School B is in a urban environment, which she has never pined for-being more outdoorsy, granola crunching and doggy/horsey.

We have never had a fight that has lasted more than a few hours. My girlfriend states that maybe it is about separating.

Any insight because I am baffled and hurt.