Tough Talk,
My daughter who is lovely and vivacious young woman and I had a pretty bad fight when she visited for a long weekend. We both said some hurtful things and I wrote to her apologizing and asking her to call me. I was expecting a nice call and we would make up and get back to our regular talks and routine. But she wrote back that she was still upset with me and my behavior and didn’t think it was a good idea to speak for a while. I’m miffed and totally thrown by this. What do you think I should do TT? (Union, New Jersey)
Union,
You need to get your daughter on the phone now and by now I mean yesterday and tell her who does she think she is answering back to you like that. You demand an apology and if you aren’t satisfied with her response, you ramp it up a couple more notches. Don’t be touchy feely.
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Tough Talk 