DD is 15 and there's a boy in her class who it transpires has been very vociferous about liking her for the past 2 years.
I only found out because a friend of hers Mother is friends with a friend of mine.
This friend of DD's told her Mum (who told my friend) that the boy...we will call him X...has been texting DD periodically for the past 2 years.
He sends very emotional messages trying to convince her that he's the right boy for her.
He's also photographed her in the past without her knowing and the girl I mentioned before, saw his phone and that he had zoomed in on group pictures and saved DD' close up.
I spoke to DD who says he's part of her larger friendship group and that when he "goes through a phase of this" she stops treating him as a friend and ignores him.
Then when she thinks he's over it, she tries to treat him as she does all the others in her group and he goes back into this behaviour.
She says this time round (it reared up again 3 weeks ago) she has decided to stop trying to treat him as a friend at all...and that's it. She's not interested in him.
My initial reaction was "oh well that's ok then" but my friend says it's not right and that she's been forced to change her own behaviour to fit into this boys' behaviour and that he needs help.
She suggested that I speak to DD's form tutor...tell her about it all and suggest that she work some education into their classes on social development...that maybe the teacher could talk about how to respond to unrequited affection...the appropriate way to approach someone you like. She said that I could tell the teacher not to speak to DD or the boy specifically.
Should I bother? It's been 3 weeks now. but because t's been going on and off for 2 years is it something I should worry about?
Apparently another friend of DD's spoke to him and told him he was "being creepy" and that he needed to stop.
What would you do?