Cynthetiq

Without the marijuana parts because I'm in the same boat as analog.

Choices are choices and your mom makes some poor ones based on your posts here in this thread.

You want to get back at your mom?

GET A JOB AND GET OUT OF THE HOUSE.

why? because then you take MONEY out of her pockets because you are an adult and your father can give money DIRECTLY to you instead of to her to help support you and your college. Thus if she's cheating the system now, she's going to be in a world of hurt when she doesn't get the money she's "entitled" to for your share.

now I'm going to say something really harsh and if you don't want to read it don't highlight it.

Spoiler: If you continue to stay there, you are EQUAL in my eyes as to what you are complaining about. While she may "cheat" the system, you are cheating your own work experience too, sponging off of her as an able bodied person who is capable of working and earning their own keep.

edit: also, while she's not abusing you and you've had the same clothes since 7th grade, my wife grew up picking out of the "poor box" as her mom was and still is a starving artist. She did something about it, when she could work, she went out and did as a "dumb teenager" as you put it. She paid for everything herself that her mother was not able to provide that she wanted and her POS father didn't even help with child support.

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