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Quote From: vwrabbit84

Hello all. I'm a 20 year old college student who is residing at home. I've been dating my boyfriend for about two months now and we care about each other very much. A few nights ago I was at his house and got really tired and we both agreed it would be best if I didn't drive home considering it's a 20 minute drive on the freeway. The next morning I got home and my mom decided to ground me. I'm not allowed to see my boyfriend for a week now. I have an older sister who is a lesbian and when she and her girlfriend started dating they were spending the night together all the time. My mom didn't care because, well, my sister couldn't get pregnant. However, at that time, my sister was responsible for taking me to school in the morning and most mornings I didn't know if I would have a ride to school. My sister got grounded once and after that was told that if she wanted to stay out all night, she would have to make her car payments. Well, I pay my cell phone bill, my house phone bill, my car insurance, and my car is already paid off. The only thing I don't pay for is my education because my parents said that as long as I was in school they would pay for it so I wouldn't have to worry about it. I see this as a problem, though. It seems like they're giving my sister special treatment because of how she is. She was 19 at the time all this was going on and I'm 20. I've always been the good kid whereas my sister smoked pot, ran away, ditched class, and stole money from my mom. My mom says that it's not right for a girl to stay at her boyfriend's house because they aren't married. Yet it's perfectly acceptable for my sister to be living with her significant other? She keeps telling me that one day I'll have a little girl and then I'll think my mom wasn't so bad with me. Well, when my daughter is an adult, I'm going to treat her like one. I really think that she is treating me like a kid, especially since she gave me a curfew (I have to be in by midnight). She says that she wants to know where I am at night and that I'm safe. So if she knows that I'm at my boyfriend's house with him why can't I stay there (he lives with his mom and younger brother)? She let me go camping with my last boyfriend after we'd been together for no more than two weeks and had no idea where the camping location was. It was for a class of mine, but she still had no idea if my then boyfriend and I were actually going camping or if we were going to be staying at some hotel for the weekend. She also had no way of getting in touch with me. But, if I stay with my boyfriend, she knows where I am, that I'm safe, and she is able to reach me. If I were a parent, I'd rather my daughter spend the night at her boyfriend's house where I know exactly where she is and that I can reach her instead of going camping God only knows where and not being able to get in touch with her. What do you think?