Seriously? Horsing around and tickling have always been part of foreplay in my relationships...
I have to agree with Angela here. If your daughter were 14 years old, maybe you'd be right to put your foot down. Maybe. But she is an adult now. Whenever you interfere in her relationship, you prevent her from learning a lesson, and she will have to learn that lesson later on, probably with much harsher consequences. If she is forbidden to date a borderline abusive man without making that decision and implementing it herself, next thing you know she might elope with one. Let her make her mistakes and deal with them now that they don't have so fierce consequences.
My parents forbade me to see a boy they thought was bad for me when I was 14. They were probably right... but I did not have a chance to find out for myself. Next thing you know, I was 19 and in a very similar relationship - except that things tend to go a lot further when you're 19, with your own apartment and money, no curfews... than when you're 14. I understand why my parents made that decision, but I also understand that it was a stupid one. Let your daughter learn.
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