Protecting Your Child Versus Needing Permission

Our first caller wants to know if she's the asshole for telling her friend that she doesn't want her 6 year old son around hers anymore. Our second caller is wondering if it's time to stop playing house? And, our third caller's boyfriend is paying his parents way through life.

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