Hey -- how about running away?

[Guest guest]

I have had a very busy week dealing with a sick pet chicken, so I haven't been

here a lot. Or watching tv--caught up on some last night.

I watch Parenthood--for some reason the family dynamics really hit home. I love

how the characters can really argue with each other--all at the same time.

Nothing was allowed like that in my house. Everyone was afraid of upsetting

nada--no one spoke their mind but her.

Anyway, one of the teen characters is very unhappy with her parents and decided

to run away (to the loving grandma). I got to thinking about why I never chose

to run away. Then I wondered what the rest of you KOs had to say about your

feeling/experiences.

Here are mine:

1) Every time I felt like running away, a great sense of " I can't do that to my

family, look what we are already dealing with " would pop in my mind. My father

and I lived their under siege, I was not going to make it worse for fada.

2) I felt if I did run away, there was no one/place to run to. No one in the

family would believe me and there were no friends.

In the end, I just 'did my time' until I could get the hell out of her house.