On the personal Mommy-grizzly side of things, here, after DD announced this to us and showed us her the conversation on her phone...

I couldn't help thinking to myself;

Yeah? How "typical" does my 13yo seem to you NOW? HUH?

I've not seen a more gracious break-up-- EVER-- coming from a teen, and seldom even from adults. This was a boy who was basically behaving with stalkerish intensity, and DD seems to have skilfully disentangled herself without too much trauma to either one of them. Yeah. "Typical" my Aunt Fanny.

Yes, I realize that this is a rather unsavory sort of thought. I'm not proud. But there was that little inner victory lap in my own black heart. LOL.


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.