When Your Son Threatens to Leave Unless You Buy Him a Car

Your heart drops the moment he says it: if you don’t buy him a new car, your twenty-one-year-old son will move out. The child you raised is standing in front of you, using love as leverage and a car as the price tag. You feel cornered, furious, guilty, and terrified of losing him all at once, and for a moment it feels like there’s no good answer at continue reading …