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Driving Away from Your Problems

Sweetie's picture

Here's a good one--
I don't know if any of you have ever tried this but I have on occasion done this, but always turned back around because I knew that I had to face reality.
There have been days, and even especially since I've moved here to GA, and known no one, that I've had so much on my plate, that I've gotten into my car, and just started driving aimlessly, without any sense of direction of where I was going, just to get away. I would drive for perhaps a half hour or so, not any longer, because the price of gas is so high, the reality check comes in quick, and turn back towards home. But there are times when I would absolutely just love to scream and screech that I absolutely hate my husband's ex-wife, and am tired of dealing with the junk with the ungrateful stepkids. They twist everything, and it is always some kind of narcissistic relationship, now matter what I could have done for them, it wasn't right. I just can't understand today's youth at all. I must have missed something along the line, or maybe I was standing in the wrong line because I can't relate to what these kids are doing at all. They call all the shots these days, and the adults are literally at their mercy. And I wonder how many of you are dealing with situations like that? My husband was telling me about his coworker who was saying that the high school seniors parents that had money were funding them and putting them up in apartments their senior and basically kicking them out of the family home. How is that supposed to help? I don't mean to be confusing, I just don't understand what's going on.
Regards,
Sweetie

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Sherrylyn's picture

I too have gone for the long drive. Usually the citys perimeter highway. I'll drive 1/4 of it when I'm miffed and the whole thing if I have been pushed too far. I just want to have enough cash to hide out at a place out of town, but I never do.

Can you imagine what goes on in that situation? Parents footing the bill and the teen running the show in THEIR OWN PLACE. How does that even work? I can't see it working out well. I'll share your confusion with todays youth.

happy mom's picture

One night I was pissed off at my husband and took the car and daughter to drive away from him...ended up at my sister's house for a couple of hours and then had to go back home cause my daughter couldn't sleep at my sisters.....

smcpaw's picture

Unfortunately, I too, sometimes want to get in the car and get away if only for a little while. Today's children do try to run the show and if you let them, they will. That's the main problem in my relationship with my boyfriend because I refuse to let his daughter (who doesn't live with us full time) run the show at our home (and now she doesn't come over at all because she doesn't like the rules). I understand how some parents just give in and let their kids run the show and by letting them live out of the house is a way of shrugging off making them mind and becoming responsible young adults. Nobody said raising kids was going to be easy, but I would be dead if I ever treated my parents the way kids try to treat parents today.