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[quote=Anonymous]I’m gonna go out on a limb but he’s your teenage son - you aren’t dating him. Go to dinner on your own and let him make ramen at home, it’s not personal. I know a lot of moms who get into these power struggles with their kids and it’s bc they view their teens behavior as a personal affront, it’s all about their own feelings and inability to let go of their “baby boy” (or girl), and I’ll be honest it’s all a bit immature to me. You probably have insecure/anxious attachment (understandable) and so you frame all of your son’s hormonal crap as some sort of insult to you personally, it makes you feel less than, when reality is that hes in his own little world trying to grow up, and be an independent being. If someone made you go out to dinner when you were in a crappy mood, how would you feel? Yeah that wouldn’t happen, bc adults get to make those choices for themselves but somehow it’s disrespectful when a teenager does it.

A teenagers job is to start to detach from the family. Certainly you can hold them to behavior standards, but unless it was an important dinner for some reason, who cares if he doesn’t go. Work on HOW he tells you, but you have to let him make the choices some of the time.[/quote]

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