My Daughter's Broken Heart

                    So my Daughter's boyfriend broke up with her...day after Valentines day after standing her up ON Valentines day.

Oh, he's a peach



Needless to say she is heartbroken


Now, as a mom when you hear your child so upset and you can literally feel her pain what do you do?





What I wanted to do was go there and gently talk to the guy and ask him why he felt the need to hurt her in that way....yea, just talk...




                       



I wanted to drive the 5 hours to her school and sit with her and be her comfort 

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But she's no longer a little girl. She'll be 21 soon. She didn't want me to drive there. We talked for a while and somewhere I remembered an article that stated that a parent dealing with this situation should never say bad things about the child's EX boy/girlfriend (in case they get back together then you'll be the bad guy because you said all these awful things).


OK, I failed big time with that rule because I think I hold the record now for saying the word 

 +   ...in a single conversation
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By the end, she chose to spend the night at her girlfriend's and I'm sure they were a great comfort.

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As for me I'm still getting use to the fact that I can't swoop in and fix things for her. This is something that she is going to have to hurt through.



...but she knows I will always have her back....
and no matter what,  she just has to say the word and I'll be there

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