okay so my dad got married to this woman(we’ll just call her miss kel) like 8 years ago, and i respected the fact that since she was my step-mom, i should obey her rules/listen to her and all that. Well, a few years ago, my dad and her got divorced, but for some reason (probably because they had my little sister together) she still lived with us, and to this day, they still arent married. She is constantly trying to control my life and she like is always untrusting of me, like ive gone places and she would get people to watch me to see if i was really going where i said i was. Recently, I’ve been told i cant see my boyfriend anymore (but of course, im still with him) because of some “bad” texting. It first started out by them acare.hfaqs.com”target=”_blank”rel=”external”title=”skin care” >sking me why i was texting him literally ALL NIGHT, which i know i never do! The latest i would stay up at night is like 12 because i have school in the morning. but when i tried to tell them the t-mobile website wasnt right, they called me a liar, which caused her to tell my dad that she knew what I was texting and if i wouldve just been honest about my “all night texting” she wouldve never told him anything. So all of this lead to her finding about my bad texting. Somehow miss kel hacked into the t-mobile website and read all of our texts, and you have to be like some sort of a genius to be able to do that. Also, because of those texts, she has been accusing me of sneaking him in my house, and i have NEVER done that before, with anyone! She also told me that she got part of the garage door finger printed because in her words “when i left for work, i pushed this little piece of the garage door to the left, so if anyone was let in this house, i would know. Its moved to the right” I sat there trying to convince her my boyfriend didnt come in the house, and she was like “So what you’re saying is Casper the ghost did it?” My dad then decided to bring up the idea of security cameras in my house, and i think it is absolutely ridiculous because i didnt do anything. She is basically manipulating my dad into doing all of this useful stuff, and im really getting tired of it. She got my phone blocked to where i cant text him or ANYONE except her and my dad. My friends all say its illegal that shes technically not related to me at all, and shes like reading my texts and controlling my life, but I don’t know what I’m supposed to do about that, i’m only 16. She always says how one day i will thank her for what she does for me but really, i want to just shoot myself, not literally, but im to the point where i would rather live anywhere but there. and if i told her everything im typing right now, she would run to my dad and tell him, and he would get furious and take more away from me. I just dont know what to do anymore, HELP!!

did you get your polio vaccine?
Make a court order/call the police and have her evicted.
If you can’t then move out to another relatives or friend’s, no matter the miles.
Um…weres your mother?
Not sure what to tell you here….dad is letting her run things so there really isnt anything anyone can do until he stands up to her, but he cant even get her to move out after a divorce soooo…..move maybe? go life with mom if thats possible…or grandma, aunts or uncles???
Oh. My. God!
What a nutjob! That really sucks! I suppose you could petition the courts to get emancipated, but living on your own is very, very hard! You’d really have to have your ducks in a row: job, rent, school (cuz you can’t get a good job if you drop out). Do you have other family members like an aunt or uncle you could talk to? You really need someone in your corner. Is there a counselor at school or teacher or minister or somebody?
The leagality doesn’t really seem to play. Your dad is your custodian, and since he buys into what she says, you’re hosed. Lay low until you figure something out.
Can you beak them up? LOL!
Big hugs to you!
I know how you must feel being 16 almost an adult and feel that she should have no control over you because they never re-married – but they are still together – and they are still running their household as a family unit – that means you must abide by the rules. I understand how she feels because T-mobile is not wrong – for whatever reason on whatever night – you were up past midnight texting – be honest with yourself. There is no way any adult would believe a 16 year old that T-Mobile website must be wrong – seriously – you got caught lying and you still can’t even admit it to yourself – that’s the first step of becoming an adult – is admit your wrong-doing. The second thing is – it doesn’t matter WHO requested the text records, the fact that you were using TEXT inappropriately is what the problem is. You broke the rules and now you’re pissed you got caught. Not that you did those things but that she caught you doing it.
If you want to make everyone happy. If you ever want to see texting on your phone again. If you want your life back – this is what you do…
Get dad and ex-step/mom together on the couch. Tell them that you must of been wrong about texting past midnight and just because you don’t remember doing it, doesn’t mean that you didn’t do it. Instead of getting all defensive – act and be apologetic. Those records are facts for any parent – they would never ever ever in a million years believe the child – I didn’t do it – sorry you’d be going to jail with this kind of information – THEY ARE FACTS. Now you need to turn your tail inside and apologize (don’t want to? it’s your phone, not mine) . . .
Next, tell them that you realize now that you have gone way too far with texting and that you understand why they took it away from you. Be sincere about it. Ask them what you can do to show them you are mature enough to handle the phone/text again. Whether it be doing the dishes every single night for a month or washing dad’s car once a week for a month or whatever they could come up with so you can get your privlidges back.
Figure out how to make it work. Stop complaining about what everyone else does and own up to your own actions. Be mature enough to deserve a phone with texting.