I came home from work one day a while back to find that Sophie and Julia had been going at it quite badly. Julia was talking about military boarding schools again and Sophie was ranting incoherently while stomping and slamming doors.
Sophie complained to me that her mother was too strict. I told her that I agreed with her mother, which only further upset her. She said, "It's not fair," a common theme in all of our arguments. She said that there is supposed to be one strict parent and one lax parent that she can turn too. She said it wasn't fair that she had two strict parents. She once again told me how no other parents were as strict as us and that we were "ruining" her life.
Found this in my "Drafts." It's at least 6 years old. I decided to clean it up and post it. I don't recall what the fight was about. We probably wouldn't let her get a Miley Cyrus portrait tattoo or something similar that all her friends were allowed to do. I chose the above picture, because one of the many ways we ruined Sophie's life at that time was by not buying her an iPhone, because ALL her friends had iPhones and she could not live without one. Although I probably blocked out the nature of the above mentioned argument as a coping mechanism, I cannot rule out that it was about an iPhone.
My question to Sophie now is: Is her life still "ruined," or was she able to recover from the damage inflicted by us during this time?
