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Nancy, welcome to the program.

Yes, hi, good afternoon, Dr Laura.

I have a two-part question, but I can give a little bit of a background.

Go ahead. So I have a 13.

So I have a 13 and a half year old son, pretty mature for his age in every term sort of smart kid. So he's had a group of friends, four guys and

one girl last year in seventh grade and and they would hang out in

would hang out in school and stuff and few times just outside of school

with you know dropping them off and stuff however the girl sort of they

divided him to his to her house few times the first time I went with him to meet the parents and stayed there and stuff.

So after that, a few other times they've invited him for several reasons,

whether it's Halloween to pass out candy, or just to spend time and maybe play video games and stuff, which is fine.

But, and I know that it was a little bit more than just friends because he expressed that to me that they like each other and they talk on the phone all the time and stuff and they have after school activity once a week that she attends as well in

school.

So what my call is about is he asked me my husband and I a few days ago whether when is

it that we were in a relationship,

first relationship ourselves.

And my answer was like 19 or so,

and my husband was like 1415. So he's telling us that he wants to sort of

call it a relationship but my question was you're young, this cannot be your girlfriend, but I also want to validate

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