You're not nuts or alone. I have a teenage son, which is COMPLETELY different from raising a girl, but I do remember how I was as a teen. I fought hard with my mother for a few years. I thought I knew it all at times, I wanted to grow up so fast, and I was boy crazy. I didn't always make the wisest choices either. I know I broke my mother's heart many times. But she weathered the storm, and eventually I grew up. Now we have a very good relationship, and I understand so much of what was going on then. That's why there are all the cliches out there about teens and how difficult they are. It's true. Teen angst is a real and palpable thing, and unfrotunately, the people who love them the most take the brunt of it. Sorry you feel crazy. Just keep telling yourself that like the terrible two's and colic...it won't last forever. Do a LOT of counting to ten in your head :) |
