{"id":358983,"date":"2026-03-22T07:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/358983\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T07:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:44:09","slug":"dear-mary-my-adult-daughters-are-not-in-a-position-to-move-out-and-want-their-boyfriends-to-stay-over-but-my-husband-says-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/358983\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Mary: My adult daughters are not in a position to move out and want their boyfriends to stay over but my husband says no"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'My husband says we will be sending the wrong message to the boyfriends regarding what we expect when it comes to their behaviour towards our daughters.' Image: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MGmary (53).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8216;My husband says we will be sending the wrong message to the boyfriends regarding what we expect when it comes to their behaviour towards our daughters.&#8217; Image: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Question: Myself and my husband cannot come to an agreement over whether or not our daughters can have their boyfriends spend the night in their bedrooms. Our daughters are over the age of consent, old enough to buy alcohol, and I consider them to be emotionally mature for their age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">They, of course, think they know it all, and can be silly at times, but overall I trust them to be sensible, and to take precautions and behave sensibly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;My husband says we will be sending the wrong message to the boyfriends regarding what we expect when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6361,35746],"class_list":["post-358983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine","tag-mary-oconor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}