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 This may be a stupid question, but why did she turn to him and not you? Or is he closer to her work/school/whatever else she has going on? 
 Also let's be honest. Do you want to live with your brain damaged father or your insane libertarian pipe smoking carnivore mother? What a wealth of choices my child has. 

In my defense I waited to go really ham with my lifestyle and my sharing my actual political opinions until she and her father were grown up. When she was younger I just wanted things to be nice and normal and for her to eat vegetables, do her homework, floss. Ya know.