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Any BPer's with teenage daughters

joybells
joybells
How you you deal with BP having a teenage daughter who has to be on a special diet and think's I don't care about her and am obsessed with finding a man which I am not and who wants to move back in with my exhusband who is not her father and who has a very severe internet porn addiction and walked into her bedroom with no clothes on and has nude pictures of women on his livingroom and bedroom walls?This is very stressful for me to deal with and I'd love other's comments.
deleted_user
deleted_user
My daughter is only 9 but I would put my foot down and say NO here.Tell her that she is your daughter and is going to stay with you and when she is grown and can afford it she can move out and go anywhere with anyone she wants END OF DISCUSSION !!!!
Also some family counseling for you and her together would really be a good idea.Ideas and things she will discount because it comes from you may go over better being heard from an uninvolved third party. Good luck.:)
deleted_user
deleted_user
If she moves back in with him I would call the police. People don't accidentally walk into a room nude.

Just remember sometimes it is better to be respected than it is to be loved. This coming from a father of the most disrespectful son in the Universe.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I have a teenage daughter who used to be the sweetest girl in the world. I've recently caught her smoking. Her latest thing is cutting herself. We moved to a differnt town a year ago and ever since she hooked up with this crowd of kids that have been in and out of psych wards, runaway, cut themselves and generally are a bunch of rich spoiled brats who think it's cool to be this way. I am moving as fast as I can!!! her father has not been in her life/in & out for years. I asked her well do you wnt to go live with hin and see how much better u have it? Well, she doesn't want to live with him because she knows he won't be able to spoil her like I do because he has four other children and she would have to share. Living with me she is an only child and admittedly spoiled. She gets whatever she wants. I grew up in a very poor household that was filled with alot of love and not much else. My parents were alcoholics and my Dad could be quite abusive when he was on one of his binges. Anyway, I always said my kids would never go without or be in an abusive household. As much as i've tried her life hasn't been perfect, but there has never been any abuse,and she's never gone without. So basically she has normal teenage hormones and such, anyway i know what you are going through and maybe we could help each other deal with this. sorry, I know this probably wasn't much help...
deleted_user
deleted_user
WHAT THE HELL? I'm so sorry I don't even know what to tell you except you need to put your foot down because that's bullshit and insanity and she's a teenager and CANNOT make those calls for herself, ESPECIALLY if the situation is as insane as it seems. Good luck :/
joybells
joybells
Thank you.I don't care whether my daughter likes me or not.I would never let my daughter move in with a man like that.I already am in therapy myself and I go regularly.I have already decided after seeing her journal here on DS that I need to get her into therapy as well and will be making that appointment first thing tomorrow morning.