On 2005-01-24 17:26:00, Anonymous wrote:
its funny you bring the music up, toward the last part of my stay she outright let me have it because i talked to her one on one about it and i was pretty much allowed to use aim and email for what i needed. the bottom line is is that the cheryl sudweeks i know is nothing like the cheryl sudweeks thats being protrayed here on these msg boards.
Chris, I think you're a decent and intelligent kid. I also think the Cheryl Sudweeks that's being portrayed here is the type of person who has you convinced that it's fittin' and proper for you to have to beg and take a lot of shit just to be allowed to listen to music or to communicate w/ friends.
I had a similar conversation w/ my daughter a couple of years ago. She had run away to live w/ her boyfriend just two blocks away from our house. She missed us, especially her baby sister, and wanted to come visit, maybe have dinner... something! We hadn't heard from her in weeks, we were all for it. In fact she was sneaking to make this phone call so that he wouldn't "get in a bad mood". And she tried to explain to me how she really could do whatever she wanted, but she just didn't want to see her sister or talk to her former best friend or anything because it just wasn't worth his reaction.
It took her awhile, and a lot more of this kind of control, before she started seriously questioning why in thee hell she should even be asking this psycho for permission to go hang out w/ her family for an afternoon or go to the beach w/ her (once) best friend.
But she did figure it out eventually. And I hope you do too.
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