Anonymous wrote:My nephew is obviously somebody's son. I prefer not to identify him or myself. His problems are transitional teen problems, not adult problems.
Last year, his mother got a call from the mother of an another boy who "disappeared". The nephew did not know the boy well, but they hung out with common drug-dealing delinquents. The mother is emotionally co-dependent, and fears that if she kicks him out, then she will never see him again, or learn that he died.
My advice is to make home life very unpleasant. Take away house keys and car keys, take doors off hinges, take phones and computers. The boy is wasting and losing prime years of his life, so the term "loser" is sadly accurate. The man-boy has no place to go, no job skills.
Where do you find counselors for this?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I mean, if you're going to make up stories and troll, at least make up your mind if he's your DS or your nephew.
NP here.
Only Jeff has the info to make the “troll” call here.
But if your troll-accusation is simply based on OP’s described scenario, then you are wrong.
So wrong, in fact, Jeff even created a separate forum filled mostly with threads about adults just like the one described by OP:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/forums/show/85.page
Anonymous wrote:My nephew has done nothing in three years since high school except smoke, vape, deal pot, punch holes in walls, and get fired from low-level jobs. He stays out all night with a bad crowd, plays video games, and sleeps during the day. The police have been called to the house. He hated high school, hates his father (who moved out last year), and pretty much hates everybody. He is better when he has a girlfriend. But otherwise, he is becoming a depressed loser.
He can't afford local housing on minimum wage, so must live at home. How can we get this man-child to transition to independent adulthood?
Anonymous wrote:I mean, if you're going to make up stories and troll, at least make up your mind if he's your DS or your nephew.
Anonymous wrote:I mean, if you're going to make up stories and troll, at least make up your mind if he's your DS or your nephew.
Anonymous wrote:I mean, if you're going to make up stories and troll, at least make up your mind if he's your DS or your nephew.
Anonymous wrote:My nephew has done nothing in three years since high school except smoke, vape, deal pot, punch holes in walls, and get fired from low-level jobs. He stays out all night with a bad crowd, plays video games, and sleeps during the day. The police have been called to the house. He hated high school, hates his father (who moved out last year), and pretty much hates everybody. He is better when he has a girlfriend. But otherwise, he is becoming a depressed loser.
He can't afford local housing on minimum wage, so must live at home. How can we get this man-child to transition to independent adulthood?
Anonymous wrote:I mean, if you're going to make up stories and troll, at least make up your mind if he's your DS or your nephew.