Closing the door after the horses bolted

[DubaiSis]

Maggie, my sister dealt with the same issue with her daughter. First, they talk to each other WAY too much, but daughter would call, even between classes and vent about every little cross-eyed look she got from someone and my sister thought her daughter was MISERABLE, only to find out that daughter vented to mom and moved on, without telling mom that the problem had been solved, dissipated normally or whatever. Of course everyone tried to tell her to cut the cord, but we'd been saying that since the kid was 2, so you can assume it's pointless when the daughter is 20.

24/7 communication is not your friend. If daughter had to wait until Sunday evening to make a 5 minute long distance phone call, we'd be getting a lot fewer of these sob stories.