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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He becomes too clingy and is constantly texting and asking to see the girls he dates and always winds up getting dumped.  He largely ignores his guy friends when he is dating and then when he is dumped he is depressed and isolated until he can rekindle those friendships.  We've sent him to a therapist, which doesn't help.  I don't feel like I can tell him that he is forbidden from dating as a 16 year old, but I wish I could because this dynamic is not healthy for him.  What can I reasonably do that I haven't already done besides talking to him and sending him to the therapist?[/quote]

Yeah, he needs to deal with that. My DD went on ONE DATE with a boy and he started texting/FT'ing and being just too familiar almost immediately. She tried to set some boundaries (e.g., I'm with friends tonight, I'll not be able to talk to you until the morning) and he didn't respect it. Then just FREAKED out when she cut it off: showing up with flowers, implying he'd hurt himself, etc.

The next boy was more of a BF but, again, he said she needed to "text me more and see me more." Not unreasonable, necessarily, but they are parting ways for college anyway and she is getting ready for that, for a tough curriculum, etc. I get he was feeling uneasy and got clingy in response. But it was way too much. So she broke up with him.

Clingy, in a man or a woman, is just not an attractive quality.[/quote]

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