Broken-hearted teenage girl

For numerous parents across the world, managing the academic, emotional, and psychological lives of teenagers at home can be so demanding, potentially difficult, sensitive, and tricky. Among so many problems, issues, challenges and difficulties that teenagers may face in their tumultuous lives, many middle-aged parents find themselves facing a broken-hearted teenage girl at home, after she has gone on one, perhaps two romantic dates with a boy. Mothers, fathers, and siblings often-times want to show their support, encouragement, understanding, and nurturing sides at such a difficult time, but may feel unsure about exactly what to do with this sensitive situation.

Teenage girls, and also undoubtedly older women, may find themselves to be romantically involved, entangled, and drawn to a guy, sucked into a romance sooner than they expect to- and things may progress far more rapidly than they themselves anticipated. A girl, with a tender heart, may have all sorts of tender, personal feelings. She may or may not have a close relationship with siblings and parents, to be able to confide in them, about their ups and downs, trials and tribulations, thrills and setbacks.

Teenage girls, as different individuals, may express their emotional states in incredibly diverse ways. There may be joyous shrieking, following exchanges of romantic messages on a mobile phone. There may be long tearful crying spells, after a brief romantic date in the park involving some ice cream turned into a nasty argument about the teenage boyfriend’s dog. She might be showing great levels of anxiety through rituals in the bedroom before the romantic date on Saturday. Sometimes, parents at home just want to help her relax, calm down, and let her know that they are there for her even if the teenage boyfriend turned into a massive disaster because his political views are far too extreme and he actually shows no regard for personal hygiene.

It can be quite unsettling to have a teenage girl at home who is going through upheaval and is trying to attain an emotionally, spiritually rewarding romantic relationship but struggles to get there depending on which boys she meets at school, at sports clubs, and in the wider community. Sometimes, parents want to be patient with the upset teenage girl- to show their nurturing side, share meals together, casually chat, have a reassuring presence, to have a sense of continuity with or without the teenage boyfriend. It can be a frustrating process, but, she is just gaining an understanding of herself, living her life; and sometimes, doing the best that she can, given what she is facing. To some extents, hopefully she is finding that the routines of her life offer consolation- maths classes, other science classes, sporting sessions, aunts and uncles visiting, short holidays with family members, hobbies clubs, news of her favorite bands, and any number of things that are rewarding to her and help her form her own identity. A teenage girl is probably going to go through times of anguish, sadness, devastation, despair, desperation, eager anticipation, romantic longing, and desire. Hopefully, family members feel fairly reassured that this is quite good preparation for the future and that sooner or later, she is going to solve it all!