DEAR ABBY: My spouse and I have been happily married for 31 years. However, we have a strained relationship with our daughter “Willa.” Although we don’t like her pothead/never-held-a-job boyfriend of four years, we’ve tried to accept him. We even paid for a family vacation and included him.
I’ll admit we were hard on Willa growing up, but we always said she could live at home while going to school. She’s a hard worker, and we have told her how proud we are of her accomplishments. She’s going to school, works two jobs and has never needed anything from us.
We see our daughter only on special occasions. We did family therapy to help our relationship, but she stopped going when the boyfriend came into the picture. My question is: How can I have a good relationship with my daughter? -- MISSING IT IN NEW MEXICO

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