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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How often are your kids seeing their bf/gf?

Mine is 17 and they've only been dating a few months but don't really see each other much. Lots of texting and they usually hang out 1 day/week (sometimes for an hour or so after school).

Is this the norm?

It's just so different now. When I was dating in HS/college I def was with my Bf a lot more than that. [/quote]

All the time, like 5 times a week. But my daughter drives and he lives 5 minutes away. And pretty much all of their friends are mutual friends. She’s toned down her extracurriculars this year bc it was too much,  her fall sport is over and her part time job is only a few hours a week. Sometimes they might only meet up for an hour and sit and do homework together but that’s easy to do. If she’s out with her girlfriends they end up meeting up with him and his friends.

Do they go to different schools ? Or have different social groups? It’s not a bad thing. I know a bomb is going to go off in my daughter’s life when they break up bc their lives are enmeshed. Her first bf was like this too and it’s still messy at school almost 2 years later. [/quote]

This is abnormal. Your high schooler already had a two year “relationship” with a boy and is now in a new “relationship” where you know it will be a bomb in her life yet you allow the fuse to burn with daily GTG and making him the center of her world?

Teach her how to love herself, cause this is simply codependency. [/quote]

No it was 2 years ago that she broke up - dated for 6 months but were good friends before that. This boy has been her friend for years as well. She didn’t date anyone with any seriousness for a year and a half.

I appreciate your concern, it’s valid to a degree, but my point was more that it’s a bomb bc of mutual friends and activities. They were together a lot before too, she’s pretty much spent her whole teen years surrounded by other people, as she has a lot of friends and is very extroverted. It does concern me, although she has plenty she does for herself.

If the kids don’t go to the same school or even are in different grades/friend groups these things can be kept more seperate. 
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