There's a crop in my inbox where I need to say, widely: MOMS:

If your teen daughter tells you she's not talking to a dude anymore, LET IT BE.

If your teen son says his ex gf doesn't want to be friends anymore, do not call her mom and try to get the kids to work it out.

If your teen son is sad after a breakup, here are people who can soothe his feelings:

Himself
His parents
Pastors, coaches, therapists
His friends

It is not his ex girlfriend's problem.

HE IS NOT THE PROBLEM OF THE LAST WOMAN HE DATED.

I have MULTIPLE, multiple letters where a teen girl broke up with some flavor of abusive/push/predatory dude and the moms are trying to "make peace" and "work it out between them" and the letter writer doesn't want to get the dude in crime-trouble but she wants to be left ALONE.

"I told him to leave me alone but then he had his mom call my mom and my mom is telling me 'I can't just ghost him.'"

1. BELOVED, YOU CAN GHOST HIM

2. "Leave me alone" isn't "ghosting." It's a clear direction.

3. Parents, your daughters don't have to be nice to assholes.