Your son's girlfriend does sound like she has a good head on her shoulders.
SOMETIMES it works this way among siblings, even twins. Rebelion on all sides.
Hendersonvill Tenn. home of the Stars in the 1980's . My sister in law at 14 went to school with the identical twin daughters of a famous Country and Western singer. ---I never knew or had any knowledge of him as a Yankee but darn the tour buses went past his home twice a day.
One weekend the twins family went out of state and somehow I found myself watching them. Strange as I never met the parents , the kids just showed up with SIL one day and told I was their their watcher for the weekend. No one asked me to watch them except for SIL and it was not a request from her it was a no questions asked, this is how we do things here.
Strange as I had no idea what was going on but went with the flow. The Twins never spoke more then 4-5 words to me, each easiest to recognise as one dressed as butch the other as a Fem.
They spent the weekend in SIL's bedroom, never came out to eat, bathed late at night. What did I know about how things worked so far from home ???
Rebellion on all sides from the children even against each other. MIL was NO help, any time I questioned what was going on, this good Christian woman who had never drank, smoked or swore would tell me that as a Yankee I could not understand as I did drink, smoke and could swear as a Sailor.
So every day I got up made her daughter her lunch and had dinner on the table when she came home. MIL went to work, and left for the singles bars and occasionally brought home men for the night.
Rebellion, nothing I could do about my SIL but I did get my butt back up North with my 2 kids to a normal life style. Rebellion is actually normal when children have no idea of what is normal or abnormal. Sad, the do as I say for my benefit but all hell breaks out when the kids copy the parents behavior.
Is it really rebelion when children learn from their observing the parents and doing so ??? Is it rebellion as parents do not want their children to follow in their foot steps ??? Insist that their children that know their own parents have been married 5 times or more stay celebrate????
Give me a break, the kids of the poor grow up with more morals then those of the wealthy in the Arts and politics. Darn but I feel sorry for the kids that are raised with money and parents fame.
Better to be raised in a poor family when the father a poor shoe maker teaches his trade to his children, a boat builder, a tinker or tailor, a farmer or black smith.
Still after all these years trying to understand the life style of the money and fame and why they send their kids to a head doctor to be annualised as to why they rebel and are so confused.
Why the middle class also need an excuse for their kids acting out. Is it he the fault of woman not being home to watch the kids and monitor their behavior ??? Is this the fault of strangers raising our children so both parents can work ? Is this the fault of welfare mothers that depend on the system to raise their kids ?
Nope, many kids came from good family's ----our old time outlaws for instance, may just be human to rebel as a child------Who knows.
Many kids come from awful family's and go on to become responsible and well thought of people.
