Angelina
I in this topic we were talking about minors convinced to subscribe a pact with parents.
Here I write it
Milord No. Considering children like adult able to make binding life chooses and thinking they should stick with because they should think better is not what a parent should do. Also menacing consequences is not what a parent should do.
For adults the topic is completely different, as it is completely different if she asked for it vs she has been pushed in.
In this case, let stick with your example.
She asked to be belted, and ask you to be her keyholder.
She fall in love with a boyfriend and she asks to get out. you refuse because she asked to have a 1 month cooldown. She insists, you refuse, you try to talk her and convince, but she's adamant. She want to get out. Now.
What do you do?
Let’s imagine you resist.
1) She goes away, pissed, refuse to came back, turn off the phone, she answer after long time telling you that he decided that she want to live with boyfriend.
2) she stays, refuse to talk with you, ask a relative help and get out from the belt
3) she stay, accept to wait a month, but after a week she doesn’t resist anymore and during a break she refuse to get back in, no matter how much you try to convince her
Do you know all this scenarios have in common?
You lose. You lose as a parent, and any force applied then will probably results in you getting more and more divided.
So yes, she breaks her deal
And so?
Will you lose your daughter to enforce it?
Of course this is not necessary. Maybe she will not rebel. She accept the rules. And that’s fine. But if she doesn’t?
You are powerless
I think that my son has to respect his pacts. But if he will not, fine with me. I will explain why he’s wrong, but if he will not step back, I will not give a s…