Question: Dear Luise: My mom is so mean. She expects me to love her husband, my step dad. And she thinks that I worship the devil just because I am disrespectful to my step dad. I don’t have to listen to him. I hate him. I don’t know what I should do. My life sucks!!!!!!!!!!! Help me, some body. K.
Answer: Dear K.: It can be really rotten to be a dependent kid: someone else is taking care of you and if they aren’t doing it right, at least as far as you’re concerned, you are really stuck.
Many think running away is the solution but it always turns out to be way-worse than what they were trying to escape.
Try to figure out how to become invisible. Do what you’re told and keep your hate to yourself. That’s the best survival advice I can give you. Hang in there and tough it out until you can legally hit the road and have the ability to support yourself.
Until you experience not having a roof over your head and not having any food to eat, you have no idea how valuable those things are. But they can come with a lot of baggage. Your mom picked your step dad…you didn’t get to vote. The other side of the story is that he probably isn’t too pleased with you, either. And there’s your mom…right in the middle.
Can you back off? Can you get that you have absolutely nothing to say about how things are and the more you fight it, the harder you make it for yourself? Why would you do that? Know that it won’t last forever and the day will come when you can take charge. In the meantime, go to school, study, enjoy your friends and don’t make waves…all that will happen is they will drown you. Blessings, Luise
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