I have a 20 & 17 year old.their in the stage of rebelling.they THINK they know it all.But what comes around goes around.when they have kids they will know they did not know what they thought they did when they were kids.
I tried to tell my 18 year old daughter that the guy she "loved" was a good for nothing bum,but she continued to see him,now she can't get rid of him and wishes she would have listened to me.Its strange how they will beleive anyone other than who rasied them from birth.I have really had trouble dealing with this(the guy was way older) But,the more I would go against it,the more determined she was to be with him. I finally gave up and decided that she was only going to learn one way and that was to make her own choices,and pay the consequences.We can only give them advice,whether they take it or not is thier choice,and they will have to live with it.But,we also need to reassure them that we will be here for them whatever they chose.Its been 3 years and now I get to say "I told you so",lmao