While I hope your stepdaughter confides in her parents, you may be able to help her offload pent up feelings about some of the challenges she's facing, thereby lessening her stress and frustration.
"Marshall had all these frustrations pent up inside him about Jackie's not being in the Hall of Fame," she said.
He remained oblivious to the resentments and volatile energies pent up within French society that were about to explode in the Reign of Terror, mostly because he thought the French Revolution would follow the American model.
So, for instance, LaMotte's sub-Dickinson lyric about the violence pent up "behind the blinds" of domesticity heads the chapter where Maud and Roland visit the house LaMotte once shared with her jealous "companion", Blanche.
Part of the reason is pent up demand.
There was undoubtedly pent up demand following the downturn.
Again, I know that bin Laden's death was, in many ways, inevitable and that there is still a great deal of pent up rage and fear about what happened nearly 10 years ago.
Drivers complain about rush hour pent up among other cars, but once released onto side streets they feverishly make up lost time, only to meet slow-citizens like me crossing at uncontrolled street corners.
