I need help with my 17 year old daughter. She has a boyfriend that she is obsessed with. So her phone is her life and if she does not speak with her boyfriend she is just 'PURE EVIL". I don't want to send her away but I believe she needs to rid herself of this boyfriend. I am a single mother of four daughters and she is the middle child and acts as if she has no rule nor does she have to do house chores. I do want to put my hands on her but I don't want to get in any trouble because of the fact of the other children. Thinking Job Chore, but if she has asked her boyfriend to join also. What do you thinking of Boarding homes? I just need help

Where? What Country or State

Where is her father?

I don't think she got like this overnight. What is her past history?

She is 17 and you need to tread lightly in my opinion. Job corps is a great idea if she is open to it. Boarding school is not a great idea. Depending on when her birthday is, you only have so much time before she can walk out of your door (or boarding school) and never return.

She is literally months away from adulthood. It is time to start trusting her to make her own decisions. Even if she makes the wrong ones. Even if she makes horrible mistakes.