Dear LFTP: a mother's letter about her college daughter
- My college daughter is hooking up with a man she just met; her father would disown her — should I tell him, and should I keep my younger daughter from going away to college?
A host reads a Dear LFTP letter from 'Stressed out in New York': her college daughter is hooking up with a man she met two weeks ago, the father would disown her, and the mother wonders whether to tell him and whether to let her younger daughter go away to college. The hosts advise separating the issues, restoring the mother-daughter conversation (speaking truth in love rather than as a rule book, in the spirit of the prodigal son's father), and teaching the younger daughter to handle freedom rather than controlling her environment; the 'Secular' answer — check for STDs, keep grades up, don't tell dad — is read and mocked.
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