- Joined
- Dec 20, 2020
For those who might wonder where we’re at with my daughter from my post many moons ago.
We stopped calling her by her androgynous nickname. There was a massive blow out argument spurred by regular teenage lunacy. We straight up told her that her belief she is a boy is inaccurate. Prepared for her to leave us forever to be with her bio mom (where she is called her preferred male name and pronouns).
At the end of the argument she went to storm off to her room with her phone. My husband had none of it and took it, causing her to nuclear meltdown.
15 minutes later, we’re with her on her bed as she dry-heave sobbed as teenage girls do. We hugged. We told her we loved her for who we know her as.
Guess what? Thhat weekly on/off schedule with her affirming mom… non existent. She’s with us almost full time, of her own accord. It’s like she was looking for an out.
This weekend she had her GIRLfriends over for a sleepover and the girlfriends have been over almost everyday after school eating me out of house and home.
There’s hope - but parents need to be firm and stop giving into this garbage,
edited for late night typos
We stopped calling her by her androgynous nickname. There was a massive blow out argument spurred by regular teenage lunacy. We straight up told her that her belief she is a boy is inaccurate. Prepared for her to leave us forever to be with her bio mom (where she is called her preferred male name and pronouns).
At the end of the argument she went to storm off to her room with her phone. My husband had none of it and took it, causing her to nuclear meltdown.
15 minutes later, we’re with her on her bed as she dry-heave sobbed as teenage girls do. We hugged. We told her we loved her for who we know her as.
Guess what? Thhat weekly on/off schedule with her affirming mom… non existent. She’s with us almost full time, of her own accord. It’s like she was looking for an out.
This weekend she had her GIRLfriends over for a sleepover and the girlfriends have been over almost everyday after school eating me out of house and home.
There’s hope - but parents need to be firm and stop giving into this garbage,
edited for late night typos