AITA for telling my teenager she can't quit the sport she's done for 9 years?
me (44M), two teenagers. my daughter (16F) has swum competitively since she was seven. club, meets, 5am four days a week, the whole thing. in june she said she wants to stop. i said finish the season. she said she means now. my position was she's tired, it's summer, everyone wants to quit in summer, and if she stops now she'll regret nine years in about two years when her friends are still swimming. her position, which she said calmly and which is the reason i'm posting, is that she's been wanting to stop since she was thirteen and she kept going because she could tell how much i liked it. my wife says she told me this two years ago and i said she was in a phase. i made her finish the season. she did. she was fine, she was polite, and she hasn't been in a pool since july 14th and she's not going to be.
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