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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1 If you are able to follow through if necessary, tell her that if things don't work out with the guy she can come live with you--creating an additional option to living with him or living with her parents. Don't frame it as "I know things aren't going to work out, so" but "just in case..."

2 Tell her that if she wants to make her Etsy business successful, she needs to know basic business information. For example, does she know how to keep books? How to price the items she is selling? Figure out whether she is making a profit? Develop a business plan?How to market her product?  She can find courses like this at her local community college or a night high school. IOW, make her see that getting some additional schooling will help her succeed in fulfilling her own plan.

A generation ago my own cousin's kid got pregnant and married in similar circumstances. Her husband was a journeyman in a union training program, had an idea for a business related to that trade, but knew zilch about how to run a business. She took courses in accounting, marketing, and basic business law at the local community college. I know it's a one in a million story, but they are still married and have grandchildren and these days the company they started in their little apartment is a multimillion dollar corporation. It turned out the guy truly was a good guy and he'll be the first to tell you he would have failed within the first couple of years if his wife hadn't handled the books, correspondence, billing, pricing, etc. for the business. And she did it with a newborn. (She did get one semester of school in before the baby was born, which helped. )

My point is that you should try to sell some sort of schooling to her as helpful in fulfilling her own plans rather than "you should go to college because then you'll realize what a mistake you're making."

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