Young Woman

My daughter's boyfriend broke up with her this past Saturday after the Homecoming Dance. He lives about 30-40 minutes away and apparently the distance is too much for him to handle... My daughter was heartbroken...

This was her first real big heart break... I felt so bad for her. As I sat listening to her, my heart was breaking for her. I wanted to make everything better. I wanted to take away her hurt. But there was nothing I could do.

As a parent, there are so many things that we are helpless with when it comes to a child. I hate that helpless feeling...

I know my daughter's heart will heal. I know that she will have a lesson learned from all of this. But as a parent I just want to make all the sorrow, pain, hurt, sadness, anger, uncertainty, questions go away and make everything okay. Unfortunely, I could not do that. All I could do is tell her that I'm sorry, that I wish she wasn't going through this, that while it may not seem like it now, there will be other guys and happy times ahead of her and hug her and just be there for her.

We sat on the couch for a while Sunday night...me just holding her. It was nice...it reminded me of when she was a little girl. I miss that...

Alas, she's no longer a little girl any longer.

Listening to her logically talk through things made me realize, once again, that there is no dought that she's definitely a young woman.