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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sister’s stepdaughter did the same thing.  It was hard for her dad to accept.  She had been such a messed up teenager and he had been intervening to clean up her stupid messes for so long the the idea that he had to just sit back and let her make a mess of her life was really hard to swallow.

In the end, it was the best thing for her.  She eventually realized that she did not like the consequences of her own actions and she saw other kids her age getting better paying jobs, having more money to do things, making forward progress in their lives, etc., and she pulled herself together. She is no where near as secure as she could have been if she had compromised with her dad and taken his money for college, but she isn’t dead or in jail.  My sister and her husband had to be pretty harsh about how they treated her.  They changed the locks, took her off their cell plan, took her off car insurance.   I think they kept her on their health insurance, but the daughter did not realize that.  They figured if she was incapacitated in a major accident and they needed to make decisions for her it would be better to have her covered until she aged out at 26.

[b]Some people really do need to experience their own consequences to learn to take responsibility for their own lives[/b].  [/quote]

This.  Your sister needs to back off, op.  The girl needs space to screw up and grow up.  [/quote]

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