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My friend is going through a lot of crap with her current 'guardian', mainly because he likes to get on her a** about doing/not doing things that he didn't/did tell her to do, respectively. He'll tell her one thing, then freak out because she did that and say he told he to do another.

Now he's grounded her from the internet for I have no idea how long, for not wanting to make a cake last night (I don't really know the story behind that)... She really needs some place to go, just to get away from him, and I have nothing. I can't offer her a place to stay, and she's an intelligent person, so she's already looked at pretty much any other option I could suggest. I want so badly to help her, to do something aside from verbalizing my sympathy (a whole lot of ********' good that does, especially since I suck so bad at comforting those in need). I've been thinking about the fact that she's leaving this year, and even though it saddens me to know that she's going, I wish it would come quicker, if only for her sake.

I just wish there was some way I could help... I've been through this before with her, since she's had her share of problems (and then some) during the relatively short time I've known her, and every time it's the same... I can't really do anything aside from offer sympathy, which I honestly think just makes her problems seem that much more obvious. I want to do something, but I can't, so I just try to be another shoulder she can lean on (it a metaphorical sense, literal too if she was inclined, but it doesn't make much of a difference as far as the meaning of the sentance)... I guess that's all I can do.