I’ve registered mild objections to these conversations, but 1) I don’t think she has close girlfriends to talk about this, and 2) I don’t want to make her feel ashamed or like she can’t talk to me. I am happy for her, but the problem, to be blunt, is that she won’t shut up to me about it! She tells me fairly graphic details about every man she dates, and even one time about a man she met in a bar and had a one-night stand with.
I take my shoes off before I go into the house, I sneak up the stairs, I get undressed in the bathroom. I shut off the engine and coast into the garage. She’s now living in a big city after graduation and is “blooming,” I guess you could say. Whenever I go home after we’ve been out drinking, I turn the headlights off before I get to the driveway. My daughter is beautiful but very shy, and I essentially knew she was a virgin through college. My son had a long-term girlfriend in high school, and I came to realize they were having sex, so I just made sure he had the facts about safety. We started talking about sex early, and positively, and consciously kept an open line so they knew they had support if they needed it.
I’m a mother of two lovely and happy kids, both in their early 20s.
