'My past as a Troubled Teen'

mark from marky mark land, canada -

I feel so bad for my mother who had to raise me during my teenage years. I constantly ran away from home. I also did drugs, various drugs. I was lucky to never get addicted to any of them though *phew*. I was such a stubborn and idealistic teen! I honestly feel really bad for my mom heh. I'm glad thought i eventually got myself back on the right road and stopped these destructive behavior!

Comment #1 Karen from Southwest -

My sister went through the rebellious years in high school. My parents were at their wits' end as far as she was concerned. We all tried everything to get her to turn around but unfortunately that whole peer pressure thing kicked in. After about 5 years of running around with these idiots she finally realized that she was getting nowhere. She is now happily married and has a 5 year old child. We can laugh about it now but boy those days were rough!!

Comment #2 Loopy from The Big D -

My sister was a very troubled teen. She was pregnant at 14 and again at 15. The guy she got pregnant by was in a gang. She now is 22 years old and my parents are raising her two boys. It really isn't fair because my parents are in their 50's and should finally have their kids raised, but now they have to raise the boys. But, like my mom says, "We raise them, or they go to foster care." And, that is not going to happen!!!!

Comment #3 mark from marky mark land, canada -

Loopy, that must be tough... It's too bad when people make bad decisions like that and end up pregant at such a young age. It's great that your parents are taking care of the children but yeah it sucks that they can't finally have a break now that their kids are grown up. What is your sister doing now? How come she is not raising the kids?

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