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Chris, welcome to the program.

Thank you, Dr. Laura, for taking my call.

Thank you. What's up?

Well, I have a 21-year-old daughter that is dating a 28-year-old man boy that

lives with home with his parents. She is a straight-A student in her senior year in college,

and she has shot things across the, she going for a PhD and she has shot across the

bout of my wife and I that they may look forward to living together which uh well are you paying any of

her bills sir yes oh that you have to tell her that,

okay, you have to tell her that all stops. You want to go shack up with some dude. We don't pay

for anything, not school, not tuition, not books, not toothpaste, not the car, we're taking the car

back, phones ours. You can do anything you want, but understand,

sweetie, that in order to have the power to do whatever you want, you have to take full

responsibility for yourself. The person who has the responsibility has the power. If you want

all the power, the responsibility of all the finances is yours. We still you for sunday check and dinner this is not punishment and and we understand that and we have voiced that to her but my no stop stop stop no you haven't first't, first of all, you're the father.

You're the man in the house.

I need you to act like one.

I need you to make this clarification as strongly as I did, and I'm not the man in the house.

Yes.

Honey, do whatever you want.

The money stops, though.

It's not punishment. It's that you now have The money stops, though. It's not punishment.

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