My morning radio show has a segment called Therapy Thursday, and this morning it was a doozie.
The question was from a mom whose daughter is going to prom this year with a young man. Mom knows the young man's parents from high school, and didn't like them. So - she's not really cool with the young man based on that alone.
So she did some digging, and discovered that "the most adorable boy" in her daughter's class did not have a date to the prom. Moreover, Mom knows that Mr. Adorable likes her daughter, so she knows that if he were asked to go with Daughter, he'd definitely say yes. She is seriously considering asking Mr. Adorable and telling her daughter she is going with him instead of Mr. Old Bad Blood. Because - get this - MOM wants good memories of this prom. She's putting a lot of money into it between the dress and the shoes and the hair and the nails, and she thinks HER memories of her daughter's prom should be good ones.
Her question was not, "Should I do this?" Her question was, "How long will my daughter be mad at me when I do this?"