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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like you're her go-to person for venting. Maybe just hold up a mirror during these talks and reflect back what you hear her saying. You're right, you can't fix any of this for her, but are you sure she's asking you to or just getting the mess off her chest?[/quote]

I think a big part of it is getting it off her chest though she does also ask a ton of questions which is fine if they are pointed questions, which is fine except for the fast that I will give advice which turns out to be useless because they were due to her not reading instructions. The amount of times she is venting about the same exact thing is also frustrating, like imagine someone constantly telling you they have X issue and you try to guide them through it and they keep making the same mistake. Today was especially bad with three separate instances.[/quote]

Yeah, I'm not disagreeing that it's frustrating, I have an issue with my college aged son in which he has presenting something to us as being a major problem for him, but he continues to make choices that support the problem instead of making changes in his behavior with the goal of creating a different outcome. It's driving DH and me nuts, but we keep listening and asking him how he plans to address xyz when he continues to complain about the same thing. We've done the advice route and it's not been effective. [/quote]

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