My son is 14, and is brilliant most of time, I feel pretty lucky. However, I've been on my own with my sons for around 9 years, and I am struggling to come to terms with them growing up, finding this incredibly difficult since we left our old home of 9 years and I bought a new house, something the change must have triggered.
My son has been asked out by a girl, he said no. A few weeks later he told me he partly said no because he thought it would upset me. Since then this girl has asked him to go to her house several times and my son wants to go. I don't know the girl or her parents at all, so I've said no, but that'd I'd be happy to take them somewhere and pick them up again, or the girl can come to our house.
My son was annoyed at me, and told me when he gets older he's never talking to me again. It really upset me, and I ended up calling his Dad, to check what he thought and he agreed with me. This was on Monday. I just wanted support.
I've just told my son I'd spoken to his Dad, and he is so upset at me, he was teary and said his Dad will tell everyone and keep speaking about it to him and it'll be a whole big thing and he will not speak to me when he's older and he can't believe I did that.
I'm sitting feeling very guilty about it all, was I unreasonable to speak to his Dad?