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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is time for you to intervene. Let your daughter know that you are coming for a visit and to access the situation. Your child has known her roommate for 6 weeks. The parents need to know what's going on. Either the roommate tells them or you will. This is not a healthy situation.[/quote]

You don't get to decide things like that. The roommate is an adult who has the right to keep her medical information confidential. Perhaps the parents are a factor in the problem -- how would you know?

However, your daughter needs to take a step back. Her behavior is likely not the most helpful course of action and if she has only known the roommate for six weeks all it is is pointless enabling. Tell your DD that the best thing she can do to actually help the roommate is to stop taking responsibility for all this, maybe visit occasionally as a friend if she really feels like it, and otherwise inform the university so that the appropriate processes and authorities can get involved. Not DD's circus, not DD's monkeys. Taking on business that's not your is rarely the best choice for anyone in the long run.[/quote]

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