Take my advice

First, I didn't make unfair assumptions, I used the info you provided; "Living with parents", and "threatened with being financially cut off" seemed to be the gist of it. The nuanced 'well, I pay for this bit or that bit' doesn't change the over-arching calculus that they are significantly paying your way. As a parent I would like to convey a small amount of perspective: When a 3-year-old throws a tantrum, it is a way of learning their limits. What can I get away with? What are the consequences? Rewards? When a 14-year-old tells lies and cuts class its more of the same, what can I get away with, what will it cost me? At 15~16 its all hormones-invulnerability-selfishness and we pray that you make it through those years. Something important happens, then, as a kids grows up; at 17 or 18 or so they begin to take note of those myriad lessons which by now are supposed to have congealed into an idea of 'self'...a wiser, responsible self who knows something about those limits. As a parent, I would expect an 18-year-old to be mature enough to not continue to test for his limits nor to bite the hand that continues to feed it. As you said in your answer above, the only way you could get what you wanted was to do what you did. Spoken like a 15-year-old, BTW. You knew it was wrong, but you were impetuous, disrespectful, deceitful and above all selfish because it was what you wanted, damn all those other things. Your sole justification seems to be that maybe they'd let me get away with it. Again, in your words, it was worth it to try. Are you sure? Do you grasp that you lost something intangible in the exchange? No, I didn't think so. These are the trials that we as parents really really hope our 18-year-olds have grown out of. And you will get there, yourself, you're just a bit immature yet. Just be patient. And, most importantly, learn from what happened. BTW, though you will decry them now (along with most younger redditors);at a later point in your life I expect that you'll realize that you are blessed with quality parents. Good luck, maybe I'll see you in the wind one day.

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