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Random FB / Family Gripe

Background: 

So...I heart my second cousin. I really do. Her mother is kind of a pariah in her family, and there was a lot of bad stuff that happened to her as she grew up and she's now cut out EVERYONE in our huge extended family, except for me, i.e. changed her name, moved across the country, etc.

So I've kind of become her "grown-up friend" that she goes to for advice, but I have to be very careful when I talk to her that I don't come across sounding like a mom, because I'm the only link between her and the family now and I don't want to lose her forever.

Today: 

But kid is 19 years old, and just posted this on her FB wall:

Another year without a Valentine.
/sigh #foreveralone

 

You're 19 years old, and you just broke up with your upmteenth "boyfriend" of two weeks three days ago. And you think you'll be alone forever? I'm struggling right now to not give her a virtual slap upside her head. 

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"You don't get to be all puke-face about your kid shooting your undead baby daddy when all you had to do was KEEP HIM IN THE FLUCKING HOUSE, LORI!" - doctorwho

Re: Random FB / Family Gripe

  • LOL, she's 19.  The woe-is-me act is practically a requirement at that age.
    This is my siggy.
  • imageBowiesInSpace:
    LOL, she's 19.  The woe-is-me act is practically a requirement at that age.

    This!  I take it as a girl who can?t wait to have her special valentine?s day in a fantasy way rather than ?so many years without a valentine? attitude.  She clearly has the ideas of romantics in her mind over relationship.  This sounds really normal for someone her age.

  • imageBowiesInSpace:
    LOL, she's 19.  The woe-is-me act is practically a requirement at that age.

    This!  I take it as a girl who can?t wait to have her special valentine?s day in a fantasy way rather than ?so many years without a valentine? attitude.  She clearly has the ideas of romantics in her mind over relationship.  This sounds really normal for someone her age.

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