I feel that all of a sudden, my DD age 16.5 hates me and everything that I am!!!
The biggest issue that I have with this is that up until 3 months ago, She had been a complete angel. So lovely, sociable, helpful, reasonable, not so much as door slammed!!!! (I could count on one hand anyway).
She took lockdown badly and suffered bad anxiety for the first time ever also. She felt that all her hard work for GCSE had gone to waste, plus also the disappointment of a non prom, music festival, leaders assembly. The little world and the promise of ‘her best year yet’ had gone up in smoke. We talked it through, she talked with a counsellor friend of mine and eventually she seemed to be turning a corner. She was smiling again and almost back to her old self.
Anyway, for the past 2 weeks or so, she’s just been awful to me. So sensitive, I can’t say anything right!!! I’m trying so hard to give her space, pamper her a bit with new make up etc but nothing works! She spends 50:50 time with me and her dad/step mum. When she came back from her dads she barely spoke a word to me for days. The most annoying bloody bit is that she thinks dad and his wife are just wonderful!!!!!
Apologies for the long rant but it’s just so upsetting and worrying. I feel like I’ve lost my sparkly, funny DD and buddy. We used to laugh til we cried.
Any experience of this would be great. Thank you 😊