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My son, he's 19, he's a freshman in college, and he's always been very busy in club sports and sports all throughout high school. Kind of nibbles in dating, but nothing really major. He was always really busy. But now that he's in college, he's been dating this girl for about six months. And the problem that I feel...
I don't need your feelings. I need the problem as a fact. Tell me the facts. Okay, so he spends the night, either he spends the night at his girlfriend's house or she spends the night at his house almost every night. I'm sorry, your son at 19 owns a house? No, his apartment. He owns an apartment? No, he doesn't own it. We pay for it. There are no dorms?
Well, the college he goes to, it's student housing, but they're not... Like, it's called student housing, but they don't have to live in a dorm. They have student housing. What's the difference between student housing and a dorm? It's like an apartment. And the difference is basically because you can have a roommate and they each have their own separate lease. I see. Okay. And? So...
We don't really feel we're trying. We've told him we don't think it's a good idea for you to be spending every single night. Oh, I cannot believe two of you, especially your husband, say to a 19 year old boy who's getting nookie every night that he shouldn't be doing it. That's useful. Good luck with that. Yeah. So that's kind of where we're at. It's kind of like, well, yeah.
What are we going to do about that now? Like, do you have any information or any kind of help? What are we going to do about what? The fact that he's getting nookie every night? Well, yeah. You can't stop that. You can't stop that. So he's we've told him we don't really appreciate like we don't. He doesn't care that you don't appreciate it. He's getting sex every night. Do I have to keep saying that?
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For information about student outcomes, visit carrington.edu. So really, that's just, there's nothing to do about that. We just continue to ask him, hopefully, please use protection. No, I think you ought to stop asking him. That's just stupid at this point. It's stupid to keep doing that. Now, if you're paying for him to go to college, tell me what he's majoring in. Engineer, engineering.
And what does he plan to do with it? What is his long-term plan? Mechanical engineering. And what will he do with that? I really don't know. Get a job? It would help. You're where, doing what? I think this is important for you to ask these things, to know, because you're paying for the education to get there. So I think it's reasonable for you to know what the hell it means. Now, if you're paying for his education and his grades drop...
You stop paying and he's on his own. He can get a job, live with her, have sex every night, but you won't be paying for it. The only thing you can control is whether or not you're going to give money based upon his producing something academically. If you're going to cut the money off because he's getting some, that's not, that's just not, that's not going to fly.
because he'll lie and continue to get some because that's just silly. That's just the reality here. Okay. The girls are loose now and it doesn't, he doesn't matter to him that you don't think it's right. It doesn't matter to her either. And the only thing I think you should be concerned about is your financial investment. If you're paying for an education, he better damn well be getting it. So if the grades come in,
Not if the grades come in. When the grades come in, you have to be updated every time there are grades. When I got my grade report, I sent it to my parents. Yeah. I mean, I guess it's just so it's more not about that. It is because we feel like he's gone from, you know, maybe he we were hoping that he would be able to spend some time.
on his own. I'm really sorry that the two of you sit there and think about this stuff. Why? Because he's going to do whatever the hell he wishes to do. You can hope and wish he would do something else. It's not going to happen. I'm just trying to tell you to stop that part, but be only concerned about the academics. Number two, I think his dad should sit with him and say,
Let me explain something to you. You're obviously not playing partizzi all night. You're having sex. Let me be clear. If in a moment of passion, neither one of you has appropriate protection and she gets pregnant, these are the two things that are going to happen from our vantage point. One, we stop all payment to you of any kind for school or otherwise because you need to get a job and support your baby.
Number two, she disposes of the baby by having it sucked into a sink, in which case you would be part of a situation where you would kill our first grandchild. We don't take kindly to that. And again, even though you don't have a legal grounds to stop her from having it, you caused it by not putting your penis in plastic. So money stops. Your grades go down. Money stops.
These are the intelligent things I wish you would do rather than saying, I wish he would spend some time with himself. Come on, act a little more savvy. The important thing is no dead babies or no babies unsupported by a dad. Grades being met for the investment you're making. Infinitely more important than what you're feeling stuff about. Because I think most mothers have a hard time thinking about some girl giving your son oral sex.
Yeah. Okay. All right. That makes sense. Okay. So let's go after the things that over which you have control. Meaning, if this happens, you will do this. He needs to know right now, if this happens, we will do this. One semester of grade drop, we cut the finances. You'll have to get a job, put yourself through school.
You can go on the net. Do you know, I know people who haven't paid a cent for an education because they go on the net and they find these programs where young people are given scholarships and funded this, that, and the other thing. He can figure that out. Yeah. Yep. It's true. All right. I appreciate it. He's not your kid anymore. He's a young man.
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