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<blockquote data-quote="PatriotsGirl" data-source="post: 381569"><p>Marg, you are so right. We are completely stuck until she is 18. At 17 she can legally move out on her own if she wants to (and I keep praying she will) but we have to supply her with a roof over her head until she turns 18. We have made it perfectly clear that she will not be living with us after that. I will not voluntarily put up with this one moment longer than I have to. She has had more than a year's notice to get it together. I just need to figure out how I can enforce these rules that she doesn't follow. I asked her why she went through the window and not the door - she would have been better off going through the door and locking it behind her. Her answer was "I don't know". UGH. She knows my issue is not her leaving (Lord knows my home is sooo peaceful when she is not there) but the issue is leaving my home unlocked and vulnerable when we are sleeping! </p><p>She would not have been going away to college. It is a local college where I would have had to drop her off every day on my way to work and she would either have to find a way home or sit there until I could pick her up. But, no matter, she did get accepted but she got accepted into developmental studies, which Financial Aid will not pay for and mommy and daddy certainly aren't. But, you are right. She said the only reason she was even going was for me and the only reason she picked the program she did was because "it sounded like the least lame". Meaning she would have no ownership of her education at all. </p><p>I told her she needs to decide what to do with her life but it must be <em>something</em>. She cannot lounge around my house all day only to eat, sleep and poop. I have three dogs. I do not need another. So, the three days a week I have to go into the office she will need to find a place to go. She will not be allowed to stay home and do nothing all day while the rest of us work or go to school. If it means she has to sit on the front porch all day so be it. But I am done. I am spent. I am so busy trying to fix her life that I am not living my own. She has to decide what she wants out of life and who she wants to be. I cannot do it for her. </p><p>She says a friend is selling her a tattoo gun for 40 bucks and she is going to learn to tattoo because she is a great artist. Shudder. Shudder. She is a fantastic artist, but I would never allow her to touch my skin with a needle - I can guarantee that needle will not be a fresh one each time. Shudder. Shudder.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PatriotsGirl, post: 381569"] Marg, you are so right. We are completely stuck until she is 18. At 17 she can legally move out on her own if she wants to (and I keep praying she will) but we have to supply her with a roof over her head until she turns 18. We have made it perfectly clear that she will not be living with us after that. I will not voluntarily put up with this one moment longer than I have to. She has had more than a year's notice to get it together. I just need to figure out how I can enforce these rules that she doesn't follow. I asked her why she went through the window and not the door - she would have been better off going through the door and locking it behind her. Her answer was "I don't know". UGH. She knows my issue is not her leaving (Lord knows my home is sooo peaceful when she is not there) but the issue is leaving my home unlocked and vulnerable when we are sleeping! She would not have been going away to college. It is a local college where I would have had to drop her off every day on my way to work and she would either have to find a way home or sit there until I could pick her up. But, no matter, she did get accepted but she got accepted into developmental studies, which Financial Aid will not pay for and mommy and daddy certainly aren't. But, you are right. She said the only reason she was even going was for me and the only reason she picked the program she did was because "it sounded like the least lame". Meaning she would have no ownership of her education at all. I told her she needs to decide what to do with her life but it must be [I]something[/I]. She cannot lounge around my house all day only to eat, sleep and poop. I have three dogs. I do not need another. So, the three days a week I have to go into the office she will need to find a place to go. She will not be allowed to stay home and do nothing all day while the rest of us work or go to school. If it means she has to sit on the front porch all day so be it. But I am done. I am spent. I am so busy trying to fix her life that I am not living my own. She has to decide what she wants out of life and who she wants to be. I cannot do it for her. She says a friend is selling her a tattoo gun for 40 bucks and she is going to learn to tattoo because she is a great artist. Shudder. Shudder. She is a fantastic artist, but I would never allow her to touch my skin with a needle - I can guarantee that needle will not be a fresh one each time. Shudder. Shudder. [/QUOTE]
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