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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just plain miss the sweet guy who used to tell me everything.

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He will be back! Not exactly the same but in a new, mature form[/quote]

+1 -- Yes -- the sweet guy will come back, but he won't tell you everything.  Would you really want that?  Our sons are 21 and 24 -- we have a great relationship with them, and can talk about many issues, but they're young men now, not little boys or teens, and there are appropriate limits.  So, for example, they tell us quite a bit about school and work, and will catch us up on what they're friends are doing.  They'll also tell us a fair amount about the non-sexual aspects of their relationships with women, but they certainly don't tell us about sex.  I mean, as a general topic of conversation, we have discussed the issue of sexual assault at colleges (in part b/c we have a younger daughter who is about to go to college), but their personal sexual experiences -- no.  If they wanted to talk to us, we would listen, of course, but that seems so unlikely.        [/quote]

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