Earlier this month I predicted my daughter’s deadbeat boyfriend was such a quitter, he would probably quit high school before he graduated next month. I just found out last night that he quit school a week ago. Wow! I had him pegged as a deadbeat and a loser- the signs were all there- and I was RIGHT! It turns out this isn’t the first school he quit. He moved to our county a couple of years ago because he was in trouble at another high school. Unbelievable! And to make matters worse, his immature mother is willing to break him out of school whenever he can’t handle it.
The saddest thing of all is that my daughter is blindly “in love” with this worthless, tattooed jerk who has no future. We still hope to survive prom and after-prom this weekend, but after that, I don’t know how much longer we can stand for this loser to be in our daughter’s life. This Deadbeat Boyfriend has caused our family so much stress and strife. Because of him, our daughter has lied to us more times in the last 8 months than she has in all of her 17 years. She’s been distracted from gymnastics, her friends, and at times, her schooling. We’re struggling to keep her focused on these things and her future in college while he’s busy working his ugly magic to blur that focus and keep her by his side.
Now that he has plenty of free time and no education, I’m going to make another prediction. I firmly believe it’s only a matter of time until his ugly mug shows up on the evening news or the front page of the morning paper. I can assure you it won’t be because he was awarded a college scholarship. More likely he will have earned himself a night in jail and a trial date. I just hope the crime he commits doesn’t involve our daughter. I’ve lost enough sleep, weight, and sanity as it is. I can’t afford to lose her.
