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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/Impossible_Ad9324 on 2023-08-21 17:51:01.

My daughter has been dating a boy a year younger than her for three or four months.

He recently started blowing her off and hanging with his friends instead. He is slow to respond to her texts. He didn’t acknowledge her in the hallways at school today.

I’ve explained that he’s likely losing interest, but that he is going to leave it to her to do the breaking up. He’s just content to dismiss and hurt her until she does the work of ending things definitively.

I was reminded about men often stating the stat that women file for divorce more often then men. Of course it’s not that men desire divorce less often—it’s that they leave the relationship maintenance, even at the end, to women.

I hate that at 17 she’s already being handed this responsibility. I hate that this kid has so little respect for her as to be content making her feel like crap until she is forced to make a decision for both of them.

I know they are kids, but this is very real for her and she really likes (liked) this kid. I wish his parents would encourage him to be honest with himself and with her. Instead she’ll do the harder thing and she’ll learn and mature while he starts a pattern he may cling to into adulthood.

I have four daughters and one son and god help me if he ever shies away from taking responsibility for his own relationships I won’t allow him not to understand how awful it is.