Hi just wondering if anyone has had/is having similar experiences and if you can offer any friendly advice? Probably standard teenage stuff but being a first timer I’m finding the extent to which I’m being pushed away (emotionally not physically) by DD1 really hard. We’ve always had a good relationship and I’ve never been a helicopter parent, encouraged her to be independent and social etc. So I guess I should be glad really that she’s following my advice, but it stings. Example - she will turn 15 this weekend and will be on a school trip at the time, so we had her party last weekend. I was allowed to pay for the food and host at my house (so long as I moved all my furniture out of the way and took all “embarrassing photos” off the walls), but not to appear and definitely not to take photos. This point was made several times and I was also repeatedly asked to go out for the duration of the party, because “all the other parents” do that. I refused as it was a mixed group girls/boys and I didn’t know exactly who was coming. They did the cake themselves (didn’t pay for it obvs) and I had a real pang when the candles were being blown out and I wasn’t allowed in the room. I was allowed back to help with the clean up. This morning she left for trip at 6am, her dad drove her to the coach. I came into her room to say goodbye and ask if she had passport etc and it was obvious she didn’t want me there. Kept loudly saying “Bye!” to get rid of me, no hug or I love you. I know mornings aren’t the best for her and last minute packing stress etc but I just felt totally rejected. DH says to stop making it about me. Friends either laugh it off or don’t experience the same. Tried to talk to my mum and she basically twisted it around to an attack on how I’d treated her as a teenager so layering that guilt on top (way to go, mum). Just wondering if there’s light at the end of the tunnel with this and any suggestions to help manage these feelings of rejection?