Risking annoyance

[Elizabeth Ann]

To be perfectly honest, I don't see the same significance in the post that you evidently do. It's brief and rather introductory - thematic but neither detailed nor emotional. It's just the sort of thing you might say to someone before you are ready to bare your soul.

The phrase I keep coming back to is "letting my child make a mistake". I know this is hard stuff to see happen, Liz, but 22 isn't a child anymore and you aren't in control. The damage that could ensue from you trying to assert control or even heavy influence could linger for years and extend beyond your relationship with Davin.

Lea

Lea, and others,

Thanks for both points. Perhaps I am reading too much into it. She has always been a bit fearless in what she writes.

My own therapist has also warned that this is not my decision to make. It does hurt that some barriers between us seem to have already gone up, and I have to work on a rapprochement. It is just that it is like our child saying, "watch me leap the Grand Canyon on this motorcycle." She may be able to do it, but it is hard to smile and say good luck.

Liz