17-year-old son dating 18-year-old very possessive unmotivated graduate. How to stop?

[Anonymous]

Take him on some college visits out of state. Show him the wider world of options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too late now. How did you raise him in the first place that it came to this?

Basically, this is a failure to parent appropriately from the beginning.

Oh please. I guess you are perfect. I worked for a parent like you, her child had a breakdown bless her. Stop judging, start offering helpful advice. Not one of us are perfect parents. Writing as "not OP."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take him on some college visits out of state. Show him the wider world of options.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bet she's super-hot, isn't she?

a 17 year old boy would date Adolf Hitler if he was in the body of a smoking hot girl. Nothing else matters.

No, not hot. Much cuter girls at his school. She's trashy and desperate. And we have money.

At least she graduated from high school. My dumbass brother married a drop out loser three years older than him at 19 and it's been hell for my parents ever since--of course babies started coming right away and my parents felt like they had to help them out for the kids' sake.

[Anonymous]

maybe he'll slowly begin to realize this on his own... when he is applying to college and he sees his friends planning their lives after HS. He will realize that she has no goals or motivation to do anything.

[Anonymous]

If your DS is choosing to hang out with a verifiable idiot(to rephrase your choice of words), what does that make him?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your DS is choosing to hang out with a verifiable idiot(to rephrase your choice of words), what does that make him?

Slumming it.

[Anonymous]

Befriend her. Take her under your wing... and try to get her some implantable birth control.

[Anonymous]

Cut his allowance.