Our favourite blog from last week’s iBlog Friday has been chosen.
Louisa Simmonds of My Midlife Mayhem is the winner with her post called Teenager relationships and emotions. Congratulations Louisa. Your prize is in the mail!
My teenager is finally ‘seeing’ someone.
Relationships have always been complex for her.
You see she analyses every step of the dating process and usually comes to the conclusion that it’s not worth the effort.
In reality, relationships don’t involve cute little tweeting blue birds, hyperactive mice, pink ribbons and hearts, and for my daughter they are a challenge. Relationships involve tapping into emotions that don’t come naturally to her, to the point where she feels threatened by the intensity and helplessness created by ‘feelings’.
Obviously, because she is a teenager I am not allowed to pry ask questions about what’s going on and if I do, I get shut down quicker than an over-heated nuclear core. Instead I have to bide my time and wait like a dog for that precious morsel of food to be dropped under the table, to receive what paltry allowance of information I warrant as her mother.
She KNOWS I live vicariously through her, yet she still insists on ‘playing’ me.
I still don’t understand why she can’t just ‘share’ like I over-share with her?