
Quoting
KryssDevine
I've had a normal relationship with my mom for the last 17 years, but now that I want more freedoms as a teenager,
What 17 year old in this world doesn't???
there's been so much animosity because she's losing control over my life. I do what I'm supposed to, I come home when I'm told to, I maintained good grades and a heinous job in my Junior year, and balanced all kinds of emotional issues between my home and my friends.
Sounds pretty darn normal to me.
But now she's become extremely overbearing with me and I can't stand her.
What 17 year old can stand their mother all the time?
Whenever I try to talk to her and discuss the issues at hand, she pulls this "you're a teenager, you don't know what it's like" defense.
Maybe a defense...but absolutely true.
I know I lack a lot of life's experience, but it's still not fair if I can't even put in my own defense.
It's completely fair actually. At least in my house, you don't have a say until you can support yourself without my help... at all.
And of course, she thinks I'm throwing away my future for my boyfriend - which couldn't be further from the truth - because I like spending time with him and he's really the only friend who offers to see me anymore.
I remember saying the same thing when I was 17
Now finally, with us always being at each others throats, she's telling me she's kicking me out after I turn 18.
Absolutely within her right
I, however, want to get out sooner.
Good. Can you support yourself without anyone else helping you?
My mom told me that she'll gladly let me leave if I can find a responsible adult who will agree to take me.
That's nice of her. I'd make you stay put. You sound a bit spoiled.
My dad died 7 years ago and I doubt any of my related family can take me right now and/or I have a feeling they'll take her side because she's the mom.
No, they'd take her side because she's probably right
I have two people in mind though; my boyfriend's mother who thinks my mom shouldn't be parenting at all and is willing to claim guardianship over me until I'm 18 (though I would only go to her in case of emergency - I don't think living in my boyfriend's house is the best thing),
No offense, but your boyfriend's mom should mind her own business and not speak about what's going on inside someone else's house. I guarantee you she only knows what you want her to know/see.
and an old friend of the family's, who actually took care of me when I was a toddler because my mother was the druggie/alcoholic teen mother.
Irrelevant if she's cleaned up her act
I only have seven months until I'm 18, but I'm sick and tired of living here with her. I don't know the first thing about changing legal guardianship. How do I get out?