OH fuck I was full-body cringing in sympathy for these poor, poor kids! I mean A.: the uncertainty created when your mother says "Yes" to everything and then over half the time it just vanishes into vapor is bad enough.
But then! dating teachers/coaches etc. Just UGH what an unending nightmare for these kids. Even assuming these dudes are kind/generally decent, it's bad enough! to never be able to escape people and have the authority lines of teacher/mom's love interst be blurred in horrible ways. But honestly? she seems...empty-headedly flighty, which means I suspect most of these dudes are rugged and drill-sergeant-like; something about "fatherly influence" mixed with the worst most stereotypical advice from a parenting book shockingly gives me low confidence in her ability to pick well ;) Which then gets into entire other awful kettles of fish for these boys and I just wanna cocoon them. (Craftwise, though; damn! you do such a good job of making her chain of decisions seem entirely rational while conveying to us it's a trainwreck!)
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But then! dating teachers/coaches etc. Just UGH what an unending nightmare for these kids. Even assuming these dudes are kind/generally decent, it's bad enough! to never be able to escape people and have the authority lines of teacher/mom's love interst be blurred in horrible ways. But honestly? she seems...empty-headedly flighty, which means I suspect most of these dudes are rugged and drill-sergeant-like; something about "fatherly influence" mixed with the worst most stereotypical advice from a parenting book shockingly gives me low confidence in her ability to pick well ;) Which then gets into entire other awful kettles of fish for these boys and I just wanna cocoon them.
(Craftwise, though; damn! you do such a good job of making her chain of decisions seem entirely rational while conveying to us it's a trainwreck!)