Hollywood wreaks another young life

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Hollywood wreaks another young life

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2015 Jan 13, 6:25am 3,777 views 8 comments

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/dear_prudence/2015/01/dear_prudence_my_teen_daughter_s_boyfriend_has_cancer.html

My 16-year-old daughter began dating a classmate in April. Two months ago, he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. Overnight, he and his family came to demand a ridiculous amount of commitment from my daughter. She is expected to organize gatherings of their friends, come to appointments, and do whatever she can to lift his spirits. She feels overwhelmed by his parents’ demands, and my husband and I feel wary at how she become “the one bright spot” in his life. Thanks to movies like The Fault in Our Stars and 50/50, as well as to his parents, she thinks only “bitches” dump their cancer stricken boyfriends.

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Peter P 2015 Jan 13, 9:29am

Don't blame Hollywood. She is capable of making her own choices.

If she can't even think of a way to passive-aggressively dump him and look good she will unlikely get anywhere in life.

turtledove 2015 Jan 13, 11:40am

Peter P says

If she can't even think of a way to passive-aggressively dump him and look good she will unlikely get anywhere in life.

Yeah... duh... Just bait him into an argument and then feign shock at his temper and walk out. My goodness, how will she ever be marriage material if she can't figure out how to push her boyfriend's buttons?

Peter P 2015 Jan 13, 12:16pm

Or guilt him into breaking up for her own good. This requires better acting though, or it will be corny and cliched.

4 anonymous 2015 Jan 13, 1:20pm

Soft shell reads dear Abbey

Lol

Y 2015 Jan 13, 1:31pm

i...i....i...i love her....

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