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[quote=Anonymous]When our daughters were born, I met another women in a moms group (15 yrs ago). We became fast friends, as did our families. We frequently spend time together, have vacationed together (internationally, even), we are each others kids godparents - you get the picture. While we all get along, the mom and I are much closer than the dads, just for reference.

My husband and I always noticed that the dad was pretty strict, but nothing out of the ordinary. It has never come between any of us and we just chalked it up to different parenting styles. Never noticed anything that really sent up a red flag. I had mentioned something once to the mom about something the dad had said about how he disciplines his daughter (can’t remember the exact comment) and she brushed it off as “we know what’s best for DD - it’s not like you think.”  OK.

Well last night we had the daughter over for dinner and she basically unloaded on us about her dad. How strict he is with school, sports and extracurriculars. This girl is not sporty (never has been and is not at all interested in sports), but her parents forced her to join field hockey. She hasn’t been playing this year due to an injury, but told us last night she was faking the injury because she hated field hockey so much and they wouldn’t let her quit!  More stuff in a similar vein came out and we all just nodded our head in sympathy.

Is there anything I can do to support this girl?  Hearing about the fake injury broke my heart. Pretty sure the mom is in denial so saying something to her (again) won’t help I’m sure. [/quote]

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