A concerned parent noticed her daughter becoming distant and constantly glued to her phone. In an effort to reconnect, she turned off the Wi-Fi during dinner—but the daughter defiantly turned it back on. Moments later, the mother saw a message on her daughter’s phone:
“Can you come get me? I’m done with all their pointless boundaries.”
Worried, the mother dug deeper and discovered her daughter had been involved with a toxic friend group known for skipping school and running harmful gossip accounts. Even worse, she found that her daughter had posted something cruel on one of the accounts using personal information.
The mother contacted the police. But when her daughter found out, she didn’t apologize—she lashed out, blaming her parents for the stress.
Now the mother is left wondering: Was she wrong for setting boundaries? Or was she protecting her daughter from something even worse?
