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Preview next Kazoodle She confides in you, not parentsBehavior seems risky; shouldn't parents be told?My brother's 20-something daughter "Mandy" has a wild side and apparently so do her roommates. From the stories she tells me, their evenings are often filled with drinking, sex and drugs. As she tells it, her roommates are the catalysts for all the partying, but I wonder. She says she doesn't always participate and that she's in fact the conservative one of the group. The kicker here is that she's asked me not to tell her parents about her escapades. This fact, more than any single story, is what has me concerned. Why tell me and not my brother or his wife? She says she doesn't want to worry them and that they wouldn't understand. I'm ten years younger than my brother, single and live in the city as does Mandy. Maybe she sees in me a kindred spirit or maybe just someone closer to her age and therefore, she presumes, to her lifestyle. So far I have honored her request for silence with my brother and his wife. I get together with my brother's family fairly often, though, and increasingly I'm uncomfortable with the secrecy about Mandy. I've told her of my concern for her lifestyle and I've encouraged her to share some of her stories with her parents, but so far it seems like nothing has changed. I'm not sure what to do. Is her "sharing" with me a cry for help? -- Lynn in Chicago Share YOUR experience. What did you do? How did it turn out?
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