[Blade]

I didn't feel that she should be taking me for granted, that she should get her license, register her car and grow up a little. quote adorable

She has been taking advantage of you for 18 yrs and you have let her. You can begin to help her become a productive responsible adult by starting today making her take responsibility for herself, her actions. Making decisions is something we begin in childhood. Sometimes we make good ones, sometimes we make bad ones. But they are "our decisions" and we reap the ramifications of our decisions good and bad. Let her fall on her ass by herself and let her get up by herself. Sure you can help her get up when she's tried to get up alone. You can give her encouragement when she stumbles. I know I sound like a hard ass, well I am.

My sons best friend told his Mom, which was my best friend. If he was my son he'd run away from home. LOL This was after my son got kicked off the school bus and I told him he could walk home from school for those 3 days, his uncle saw him walking one day and picked him up and brought him home. I took him back to where his uncle had picked him up and put him back out to walk the rest of the way home. The school was 7 miles from the house, and no he didn't get kicked off the bus again.