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Dear Jellybean,My parents and I had this HUGE blowup a few days ago involving me smuggling alcohol into my friend's party which resulted in me being punished. Lately my life has been pretty crappy (drinking, smoking, skipping school, failing grades etc.) I've made some pretty stupid/bad choices and I want to clean up my act.
I have learned my lesson, but now that that secret has spilled out, a bunch of other secrets came out and snowballed into one BIG problem that has led both my parents to have absolutely no trust in me. I understand and accept that and neither of them will talk to me besides a hello or "did you finish your homework?" I feel like I am trapped and have no way out.
I feel like it would do me and my family a great deal of good if I went and stayed with my grandma for a week or two to let things cool off. She doesn't live very far, about a half hour away by foot and I think it would do her some good to have me as well. She gets lonely and enjoys my company very much, but she also worries about me. She knows what went down with my family and is concerned for me. I just really feel like I have to go stay with her for a while.
I have this feeling in my gut saying it's the right thing to do but I don't know how to talk to my parents about it, and I'm afraid of them shooting me down saying I can't run away from my problems, which is NOT what I'm trying to do, or if they say my grandma doesn't need me hanging around bothering her or even if they say "why would you want to do that? You can't just go and stay at someone else's house!"
I REALLY need some help with this. How do I explain this to my parents? That I think that I need a breather from all this? That I think I should stay at my grandma's? My grandma would have no objection to this because she wants to do everything in her power to help me turn my life around. I really really need some help out of this one. I'm ready to change my life for the better, so how do I do this?
