cainesugar said:
When they yell at you and then you prove to them you didn't do whatever it was and they just get all grumpy.
I don't have parents they died 8 and 9 years ago but I lived a few years with these friends of my parents. Anyway they're really really strict. They can't stand the fact that I NEVER (I've felt like a guest in their house for a decade) do anything wrong. So they start making things up like "you just walked past a piece of trash on the ground!" or something stupid like that. When I protest they say "We're the adults and you're the child and you have NO RIGHT to argue with us. We're right and you are wrong. Every time." The problem is that I'm really tidy and polite and helpful to them all the time. I never missed curfew, not even once, by so much as a minute. I did all of my homework and got good grades and didn't do drugs or speed in my car or go out with kids I knew they didn't like. I didn't date until they said I was old enough. Honeslty I was a "good kid" not to toot my own horn.
I hate it when "step" parents make up things you did wrong just because "you don't get in trouble enough and it's not good for a teenager never to get punished."
When they tell me I can't stay with my brother for the weekend. He's MY BROTHER.
When they treat me like a child even though I'm twenty years old, just because I still respect their house rules when I'm there.
When they try to tell me that I can't do something (like have a dinner party) at MY HOUSE which is 3 1/2 hours away from theirs. I moved this far away for good reason.
When they tell me that they don't want me using a certain closet in MY HOUSE (the house is mine I payed for it it's in my family's name not theirs) because they want to have something here that I'm not allowed to touch.
When they forget their own kids' birthday's and/or ages and then threaten me when I remind them. IE. They forgot how old Claire was for her birthday on July 6th. I had to remind them that she was turning 12. They got SO mad at me for "not minding my own business."
When they boast to their friends that "they raised a good kid" and you're like "I was thirteen when I met you, I was done" and their kids are getting kicked out of school for fighting, threatening teachers, and being involved in a 'drug ring' at the age of thirteen. When their kids are being kicked out of chain stores like walmart for shoplifting at ten. Yet they still boast about you until you're in private then they tell you "you're lazy, ingreatful, stupid, selfish, and totally irresponsible."
I could go on... my parents were awesome. My "step" parents are pretty much... control freaks.
