"Well if he is being like that you need to dump him."
"Well it will only get worse won't it"
"Yes I know how you feel but it can't go on like this, what if he saw you with someone else you were meeting as a friend, what do you think his reaction might be?"
"Well if you think it will help then yes I will come there"
"Perhaps your friends are right"
"Oh for heavens sake just tell him to piss off and get a bloody life!"
At which point in the conversation, son heads out of the room clutching phone in hand as I have just given him a very stern look about his language.
Apparently this is my 16 year old who is giving relationship advice to a friend, who happens to be a girl, who is having problems with her boyfriend who is behaving like a "pratt" (sons words not mine) telling her friends that they are not allowed to hug her as she is his property!, is being very demanding and by all accounts very controlling. She phones my son, her friend for advice on how to handle it because she wanted to know what he thought about it all from the male perspective.
needless to say he is not impressed.
They are 16 years old for Christs sake!
And my son is giving advice?
Ok I have to admit, good advice, dump him is exactly what I said when he later told me about the conversation.
But when did he get so worldly wise?
