This Summer has been the Summer of My Daughter’s Broken Heart. She’s experienced periodic break-ups and make-ups with her boyfriend of just under a year. He lived with us for six months, when his mom turned him out, so sometimes my feelings about the kids get a little colored by position as mother (or substitute mother) to  both of them.
At this point, however, I’m clearly all-in on the Bay side.  The kid is in agony, grieving her lost love, and sad. She started school this week and is still in constant contact with him via cell phone or the computer.
Here’s a purely selfish thought …read more