How to help my daughter who's in a controlling relationship?

Well I think the only option is to get the police involved. No matter how much she loves him, you love her more. This lad is an example of a bad lad. He steals, he’s a bum, he’s a father and not with the Mother and all at 20. Come on, your daughter can get something better and she better believe me/you something better WILL come along some day.

Get her to sit down with you, unplug the phones and make sure no one is going to come over - no interruptions - just Mother and daughter time. Tell her that you do not want to see her get hurt because it hurts you. She is growing up and you understand that but she needs to see her mistakes and learn from them. Give her an example; maybe instead of the car stealing, say it was murder, would she give him a second chance then??? It is still a crime as is GTA which IS what it is, under the eyes of the law. Explain to her what life could be like if she carried on with her - he’d have to keep jetting off to Florida or talking to his ex to see his kid or even see it. There is NO way the ex is going to be out of his or her life because of a baby so why the hell did he erupt over a PICTURE of her ex when she was younger?? He has serious issues. He really does and she needs to face up to them.

If she doesn’t get the message I suggest you keep a diary of all moanings and whingeing she does that is about him, write down why and what he has done and when it was. Write down on a scale of 1 - 10 how upset she was 10 being the most. Once you have maybe around 5 entries, show it to her on your own and say that this is how much it is affecting her and she don’t realise it.

But yeah the most you can do or rather what she has to do is put a restraining order on him. But she needs to complain about it