The last comment is quite rude and clearly unsubstantiated. The writer speaks of missing the daughters childhood. That is not postpartum depression. I see a mo

The last comment is quite rude and clearly unsubstantiated. The writer speaks of missing the daughters childhood. That is not postpartum depression. I see a mother respecting the boundaries a young person is experimenting with as she forms new relationships outside her parental ones. Something I expect is quite difficult as both parties make mistakes. You speak as if you find human disconnect baffling. Perhaps you've had no trouble in your relationships, but I'm extremely disconnected from your apparent perspective that parental relationships with teenagers can't be a source of a lot of pain for all parties. (I write as a 22 year old remembering my own somewhat recent teenage years.)