I'm desperate to improve my relationship with DD1. We were very close when she was a child. Then at around 14 she started the typical teenage attitude of only being interested in hanging around with her friends and having no interest in me or anyone else in the family. I thought it would be a short phase but it's got worse and worse. She's 18 now and still only talks to me when she wants something. If I try and start a conversation she grunts a one word answer and goes back to looking at her phone. And now I've lost confidence in my ability to communicate with her because I know I'll get nothing back. When I'm giving her a lift or something we sit practically silence. I just don't know her, she's a complete stranger to me. It's killing me. Has anyone been through this and come out the other side?
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Literally no relationship with 18 year old DD and it's killing me.
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Diemme · 24/07/2020 22:15
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