DD spends too much time at friends house?

[eh24fan]

Yes, that's right, money's tight--my husband is being laid off in two weeks, so excuse me if we don't buy designer clothes, designer bedrooms, etc. That's the way it is! I guess we're just miserable failures in dd's eyes, hey, I can see her point! Unemployment is stressful enough without feeling like we can't keep up socially. Perhaps we should just let these people adopt dd, after all, they wouldn't notice any difference, she practically lives there anyways!

OP, I think this post is very telling. You miss your daughter and you miss the little girl that was happies with Mommy. I get it. But she's growing up and becoming an individual.

As far as the clothes, she's a normal 12 yr old. I would have been the same way with my mom. Ungrateful and rude? Yeah, but she's 12 and image is important to her. That's the year my mother informed me that she wouldn't spend more than X amount on my jeans, etc. Anything more than that and I had to come up with the money. So if I wanted those $30 Gap jeans, I had to give over my birthday money and only get 2 pairs instead of 4 or whatever.

 

[EveDallas]

Why do I get the feeling we've seen the last of the OP?

 

[momx2]

Oh, she has posted on some other threads. Just take a look at her post on the Amityville Horror thread....talk about paranoid.