Ask Amy: Hot and dusty traveler has to beg for water
However, in my opinion, the more you allow your daughter to use access to her child as a tool to control you, the more she will do just that.
Manipulation only works if you allow yourself to be manipulated.
Dear Amy: The letter from “Blank Slate Mom,” who’d had her parental rights terminated, was one of the saddest I’ve read in a long time.
You calling her an “inadequate parent” was piling on – and totally obnoxious.
I’m disappointed – in you.
– Upset
Dear Upset: The reason I called this mother “inadequate,” was because in her question, she claimed that she wasn’t “an inadequate mother.” However, abandoning your young child and moving several states away is the very definition of “inadequate,” and I wanted to make that clear.
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