While I am mildly terrified of ruining your self-importance as a self-professed adult, at least to some degree above myself. For the record this is me before I'm offended. You asked me to be realistic.
[Realistic!Audrey is not as nice nor obliging as Pet!Audrey or Loves-Masaomi!Audrey. Realistic!Audrey does not take any shit.]
What I completely understand is that you have a child who has risen to a standard that you may not have meant to hold him to, but that you ultimately exemplified. You're his father. A boy wants to be like his father. Kids want to emulate their parents until they find themselves, a lot of psychologists would tell you we're doomed to be just like them no matter what. [Pause.]
So you're scared and confused and it's difficult and you don't know who to turn to because no one gave you a refresher on how to have a grown son who wants to make his own life! Congrats! He probably feels just as scared and confused, and mired with difficulty. He's probably just having a lot of sex and weird delusions around all those feelings. You're his father and an Alpha. Treat him with respect and if you have a problem with him or something, then face him like any other adult because that's what he is now. You're done raising him, now you make sure he doesn't get himself killed, and help him be his own man.
[Audrey straightens her outfit as if her sudden monologue had displaced them, and then added:] And I do want children, but not if it means I end up anything like my parents.
[Broken, abusive, difficult, and ill-fitted to raise a child together.]
maybe he should never ask her to be realistic again
[Realistic!Audrey is not as nice nor obliging as Pet!Audrey or Loves-Masaomi!Audrey. Realistic!Audrey does not take any shit.]
What I completely understand is that you have a child who has risen to a standard that you may not have meant to hold him to, but that you ultimately exemplified. You're his father. A boy wants to be like his father. Kids want to emulate their parents until they find themselves, a lot of psychologists would tell you we're doomed to be just like them no matter what. [Pause.]
So you're scared and confused and it's difficult and you don't know who to turn to because no one gave you a refresher on how to have a grown son who wants to make his own life! Congrats! He probably feels just as scared and confused, and mired with difficulty. He's probably just having a lot of sex and weird delusions around all those feelings. You're his father and an Alpha. Treat him with respect and if you have a problem with him or something, then face him like any other adult because that's what he is now. You're done raising him, now you make sure he doesn't get himself killed, and help him be his own man.
[Audrey straightens her outfit as if her sudden monologue had displaced them, and then added:] And I do want children, but not if it means I end up anything like my parents.
[Broken, abusive, difficult, and ill-fitted to raise a child together.]