Question
Hello. I am struggling right now with my life. One of the things is we have been helping a teenage boy who is a friend of my son and he also works for us. His home life is really bad so he was staying with us on weekends and his aunts thru the week. Since summer has come he has not been staying at our house anymore. It is weird to me as he told me a couple months ago that he would probably be at our house every night during the summer that he worked He has not He seems fine at work and is laughing and being normal but doesn’t stay anymore and when I asked he kinda blew it off It hurts my feelings as I have enjoyed having him around and I like helping him but I don’t know how to get him to open up about what changed..any suggestions?
If you've already asked him what may have changed, there's not much more you can do, besides emphasizing that you'll be ready to talk when he is.
Hopefully, it's because he has a romantic interest or has some other kind of diversion happening that doesn't involve dangerous habits.
It sounds like he has yet to realize how fortunate he is to have you available to support him.
Thank you for your thoughts. He does not have a girlfriend. I am not sure if it’s because he is 17 and has more freedom at his aunts. He has no curfew there at all.
I hope he realizes how much we care for him and that we are here for him.
I do understand that if inalreasy mentioned it and he has not stayed there is not much I can do. I did t know I’d others had thoughts of what to say or do to maybe get him to open up.