Regret

  • LilMissLN
    15 years ago

    Well two weeks ago I went out with my boyfriend, his sister, and his friend, we went to a few haunted houses, and then out to the middle of no where and drank a little bit...alot. Well I havn't ever been drunk before that, so it was new. Well after we all got drunk beyond belief, Rylan (My boyfriend) decided to Drive me to my house. Well I fell out of the car a few 10 times before we left so they wouldn't leave, then his friend Michael put me in the back. While I was back there I was begging Rylan to stop driving, but Michael told me to shut up and told Rylan to keep driving.
    Well they got to my house and pulled me out of the car, and I was conscious through all of this, they dragged me up stairs and dropped me god knows how many times. When we got up to my living room Rylan passed put on the couch, untill Rylan's sister started wondering down the high way, and Cops found her and she ratted us out. The Cops came into my house with out permission (Parents were out of town) and the officer came up to my room and asked me what happened. Well He decided to send me to the hospital in the ambulance and I spent my morning in the hospital. The good thing is that I didn't get an MIP (Minor in Possession) and everything.
    When My parents got back Sunday night, I couldn't see Rylan for two weeks I got my phone taken away and they took me out of my favorite sport (guard). Well my mom has never in her life done anything wrong....Ever. On the other hand my dad has done everything, so my mom is using Dr. Phill on me and saying future actions result on the past Blah Blah Blah, and she can't trust me with anything, and I'm a horrible child. I have a 3.0 average, and yeah, I've made mistakes before but I learned from them and havn't done them again. I can't talk to her without her saying " You can say it till your blue in the face, but it doesn't make it true." That line makes me Crazy alone. How do I handle her, convince her to trust me a little bit?
    I don't know what to do, please help. Thanks

  • Beautiful Chaos
    15 years ago

    You can't convince her to trust you, you can only show her you can be trusted by building that trust back up.

  • LilMissLN
    15 years ago

    I've done everything she's asked me too, I Helped her to the bitter end, and in the last 2 years Other than that I've done nothing wrong

  • Daisy if you do
    15 years ago

    Be very glad it didn't turn out worse than it did. Like BC said above, there is nothing you can do other than to earn her trust.

    You said this only happened two weeks ago, it going to take a lot longer than that to build up trust. yet it only takes a moment to destroy it.

    Seriously it could take months or years for her to trust you again. But the thing is you must try.
    I am sure she is scared at what could have happened and angry that she trusted you and it was betrayed.

  • forevertobeart
    15 years ago

    It took me about a year to gain my mother's trust back after something I did wrong, and even now she doesn't fully trust me with everything. She's always suspicious of things I tell her. You can't do a couple of chores and expect everything to return to normal, it just doesn't work like that. You can, however, do the best you can in school, stay out of trouble, and become (or at least appear to be) more mature. Those things, in time, will help gain your mother's trust back, but like I said, things aren't going to be the same.

  • Beautiful Chaos
    15 years ago

    It doesn't really matter if you were perfect in those 2 years, it is what happened 2 weeks ago that left the impression. You made a choice and choices have consequences, yours happens to be loss of trust. As pointed out above, there is no time line for getting trust back, your lucky you didn't get in any real trouble and if you were all drinking like your first post insinuates and you were driving, really you deserved to get in more trouble. As old as the saying is, it's still true, don't do the crime, if you can't do the time. Suck it up and wait it out, it was all your own doing.

  • sibyllene
    15 years ago

    I agree with the others - you really have to gain trust back, and it will take a while.

    Question for you, though: do you see anything wrong with what happened? I realize you're frustrated that you got caught and have to deal with the consequences, but punishment notwithstanding, how would you feel about it?

  • Elizabeth
    15 years ago

    "and drank a little bit... alot."

    ^ Are you drinking now? You contradicted yourself.

    I don't believe you really want nor did what your mothers trust back. You're no where near sincere enough, don't seem to have learned anything from the experience, not acting or reacting maturely nor are taking responsibility for your actions or lackthereof. You just want to get away with what you did without consequences.

    Was there even a DD (Designated Driver)? By your description, it sounded like the whole lot of you were pissed. And in your own words, your boyfriend was drinking, drove you and your friend home and then passed out on your couch. I don't care whether this was the first time you ever got drunk or not, you know the consequences of drinking and driving. You should have taken the time and care to plan a safe ride home. Both you, your boyfriend and his friend are irresponsible and naive. Aren't you even upset just a little that you're life was put at risk? That you were so careless?

    Why was she out on the highway, at night, by herself anyway? Were the three of you supposed to be watching her but you left her behind? I find that extremely selfish that the three of you dragged her along only to so carelessly get drunk, forget about her and leave her behind. She was left behind, stranded, alone, confused and probably scared out of her mind, and you have the nerve to be angry with her?! Like Amanda said, what if she'd gotten hit by a car and suffered sever life long injuries or even died, or some stranger picked her up and kidnapped her or done God knows what to her? Would you care then about someone else other than yourself or the trouble you'd be in then? Do you even feel bad at all that she was left behind?

    Why did you have to be sent to the hospital? Did you suffer alcohol poisoning? Or were you so banged up from tripping all over yourself and being hauled around by your boyfriend? I see no other reason for you to be in the hospital otherwise.

    I don't blame your parents for not wanting you to see your boyfriend or his friends again. They are obviously a bad influence on you and you obviously just go along with what they do or say to please them. Your parents are only looking out for you. You should be grateful for that fact and realize that's more than you can say for your so called "boyfriend" and "friend". Like Amanda said, read back your description of them to yourself. Callously hauling you along, putting your life at risk (of which you did yourself as well) and telling you to shut up.

    You have the nerve to be angry with your parents for punishing you and the way they're treating you? Consider yourself lucky you didn't get charged, that you were not allowed to see your boyfriend for only two weeks, got your cell phone taken away and taken off your sport team. You got off easy. You deserve a lot more than that. I'm a bit disappointed in your parents. If I were your parent you'd be getting a lot more than just a slap on the wrist for drunk driving and leaving a little girl on the side of the highway. I'd make sure you wouldn't be allowed out of the house except for school, forbid you from seeing your boyfriend or friends and make sure you did all your homework and had plenty to do around the house until I said otherwise; until I thought you'd actually learned something and you'd earned my trust back, not a measly two weeks. I would also be taking you down to the morgue or station to see the consequences of drunk driving and would have gotten the police to charge you.

    It sounds to me like you need to take responsibility for your actions, or lackthereof. It was no one elses fault but your own; not your boyfriends, not his friends, not your boyfriends sister, not the police and not your parents. You weren't forced to get yourself drunk, you didn't plan ahead for a safe ride home, you three were the ones who left a little girl stranded on the side of the highway, it's your fault you got caught.

    You can't "convince" her to trust you. Trust is earned. Trust is a privilege. Trust takes time. Your parents were trusting in you enough to leave you home alone for the weekend and have your boyfriend and friends over, I assume. It only takes one wrong decision to break that trust. They've been patient with you all your life, not it's your turn to be patient with them. You owe them that much after everything you've done.

    I really do hope you've learned from this experience, that you're taking responsibility for your actions or lackthereof and are acting and reacting more maturely than you have shown us. If you want to be treated like an adult, then act like one.