Monday, November 7, 2011

The Dating Years

My heart is breaking. It is so hard for me to see my daughter go through the dating years. A teenage girl's heart is something so fragile that it breaks with the lightest of touches. I wish that she never had to experience these same heartbreaks that women have been experiencing for years. I wish i could take the hurt away, when she feels rejected. 
Yesterday she was on top of the world because the boy she liked, liked her back,and today she "hates" him because he wants his old gf back. 
How do I as her mom just let this happen to her? I want to find that little punk and tell him that he has to stop playing with girls' hearts. Doesn't he know how fragile the self esteem and psyche of a teenage girl is? what is wrong with him? 
She is a good girl and she doesn't deserve to be hurt this way.
But alas, it is the way of life. We have all gone through it. It is not the first for her nor will it be the last. I want to hug her close to me and shield her from the ugliness of the world. But that wont do any good. it will protect her yes, but will it prepare her for life? no. Mom will not always be there to protect her from stupid boys or mean bosses or just average people.
It will get better, i know. but i still have 2 other daughters to go through before it does. Ugh.

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