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[quote=Anonymous]Yeah, there's nothing you can really do other than encourage him to engage in a variety of campus activities so he can hopefully make his own friends. And, if you are really lucky, maybe they will break up. But, she could be in his life for a long time and you may have to just cope with that to keep your relationship with your son.

One of my son's good friends since ES got involved with a girl who was very controlling when he was a senior and she was a junior. He dropped all his long-term friendships because she doesn't like him spending time with others. He ended up applying to only one college so he could stay close enough to visit regularly and it was a school he thought the girlfriend (who wasn't as strong a student) could also get into. He came home every weekend that first year, girlfriend did get into that school, they are still together with no signs of breaking up, and he lives at her house 99% of the time on school breaks. But, at the same time he's doing well academically and on a sports team at school so he has social connections through that. His mother (who is a good friend) spent a couple years being really angry and frustrated about the whole situation but has come around to resignation and accommodating in order to not lose the relationship with her son. It sucks, but the GF isn't going anywhere. [/quote]

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