Should You Put Up a White Flag to Welcome a Red Flag?

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🗓️ 13 July 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:28.1	This is not a shorty, but it's important because I think this shows up in a lot of families.
0:33.6	My wife and I have two daughters, our oldest 21.
0:36.7	She moved out six months ago after my wife
0:38.7	and I caught her and her boyfriend in her childhood bedroom one night at 3 a.m. She's doing her
0:47.1	boyfriend in her parents' home. Dingbat, okay. I've never heard of a motel. Backseat of his car.
0:56.0	This was a violation of everything we have asked of her.
1:01.0	House rules, morality issue, everything about it.
1:05.0	So we laid down the law and set new expectations that were to be lived by or she needed to move out.
1:12.1	Within a week, she was making plans, got a second job so she could afford and rented a place
1:17.8	with her stud, who is now her roommate.
1:22.2	Fast forward to today.
1:23.7	It has become completely obvious.
1:25.7	She moved out to have a bedroom she and he could be to have sex this is
1:33.4	super disappointing to us it has become completely obvious yes she was willing to use your house that's
1:40.9	desperation ah the issue now is that we disapprove of the guy. There are all sorts
1:48.2	of red flags. They met at a party where she threw her drunken self at him. He's the red flag?
1:56.9	It hasn't gotten much better. He didn't graduate high school, but he drives a BMW with a $1,000 payment, $1,000 in insurance
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