Anonymous wrote:OP here. Wanted to give an update. So, it took five days... but DH finally admitted, initially just to me, that he handled this badly... he said he didn’t know. How to talk to DD about it. At my urging he actually read at least part of one of the books on parenting teens... and, miracle, he went and apologized to DD, even managing to stay quiet and just listen while she vented a bit. He told her he had been overbearing and that he was embarrassed at acting with her the way his father had with him: he said, “Sometimes when i don’t know what do do, I guess I just do what I know.” And both he and she are now much happier.
I am hoping and praying that he will remember this the next five hundred times DD does some kind of aggravating teenage thing!
Major props to all of you. It says a ton about the foundations of your relationship with your DH that he listened to you and took action. It says a ton about the foundation of your DH's relationship with your daughter, that he was able to engage with her, and she with him.
Everybody gets to go out for ice cream!
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