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[quote=Anonymous]Just some functional advice for symptoms, not the disease:

With respect to the texting, your DD has to teach the controlling friend (CF) the rules about how they will text together.  That sounds kind of weird, but we teach each other how to communicate with each other all the time.  And how not to communicate with each other.  This is done by example.  Pick what makes sense and stick to it.  Here is one example:

You and DD decide that since it's no fun to wake up to 10 texts, you will teach CF to not do this.  BTW CF's late night dramatic texts are no fun either, so let's work on that as well.

First, DD makes offhand comment to CF  that mom takes the phone away at 8pm, and DD doesn't look at it before school.

From that moment onward, DD does not reply to any text that comes in after 8pm.  CF will be super-pissed at first (google "extinction phase") and try and text her after 8pm, and the next morning, but DD must hold her ground and not text back.

When DF confronts DD about it at school, DD just says, casually, "oh, did you send that text after 8?  I can't text after 8.  I don't look at my phone before school.  oops, I didn't see it."

CF will learn to stop trying after 8pm and before school.  Reminder though, it will get worse before it gets better, due to extinction phase of behavior (akin to kicking the vending machine when it doesn't give you the coke.  Lots of kicks, then person quits kicking and walks away.  DD will be the vending machine.  She will get kicked some, but if she doesn't give up the coke, CF will quit)[/quote]

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