DEAR JANE: I read my teen daughter's diary and discovered a dangerous secret. Do I need to call the police?
DEAR JANE: I read my teen daughter's diary and discovered a dangerous secret. Do I need to call the police?
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Dear Jane,. My 16-year-old daughter had been going through an angsty/moody phase for a few months now and it's getting unbearable. She refuses to eat dinner with my husband and I and her younger siblings. And having just got her driver's license she is always out with God knows who doing God knows what, but when we want to go out and do things together as a family she insists on staying home.
The other day I was vacuuming her room when I stumbled across her diary and couldn't help but take a peek. Now I wish I'd never picked it up. Her entries show that she is completely fixated with an older boy who she thinks she's 'fallen in love' with. He's 21 years old, goes to community college and it seems that she has made a habit of skipping out of school to smoke weed with him and his friends. She even wrote that she's planning on trying more drugs when she goes to a concert with them later this month. I didn't even know about this concert and was horrified to read that she plans to tell me she's having a sleepover with friends so that she can spend the night with him.
It's made me question the truth of all the other times she's told me she was staying with friends. Has she been with him, and maybe having sex, all along?. We all walk on tiptoes around her at the best of times because she is so sensitive. I'm too scared to ask questions or tell her 'no' in case she has a total meltdown.
Dear Jane: I read my teen daughter's diary and discovered a dangerous secret. Do I need to call the police?. I don't know how to handle the situation. I can't admit to looking through her diary, she would never forgive me. I'm also reluctant to tell my husband about my actions as he would be furious too.
