Family vs. Family (4)

1 Name: Natural : 2008-10-02 00:05 ID:0T4R925d

Starts off with my family and my boyfriend's family. His family believes in living all natural with organic foods, no antibiotics, no doctors, and all that stuff that's considered "conspiracy." (I'd go into more detail, but that's even longer.)

My mother only sees what they're doing as "evil" and "wrong." I am forbidden to go to his house anymore because they gave my vitamin C without confirming it with her (vitamins, they thought were not something that needed reporting). She worries that they're going to give me all sorts of things and tell me a load of nonsense that has no importance (back to the "conspiracies" and all that jazz).

Problem with me, I guess, is that I believe what they believe in and not what my mother says to be right. What they go by makes more sense. Even so, I can't win either way. By wanting to live their far more healthy lifestyle, my mother gets immensely infuriated, but on the other hand, having to listen to my mother makes them concerned for me.

Both sides love and care for me, but I can't pick a side in fear of losing the other. Well, my mother has been adding loads of stress upon me due to the fact that she always brings up a lot of crap about his family every day. It feels like I wake up and fall asleep to her griping and belligerent speeches.

With him, he used to constantly gripe about how my mother is "killing" me. I spoke to him about it and told him how him mentioning that is only adding to the stress that my mother is already pressuring onto me. Thankfully, with our amazing relationship, he realized what he was doing and stopped all the commenting and instead focused on how to help me. No pressure from him anymore. Now it's just dealing with my mother.

Due to me barely being underage but still enough to be under her control, I have to do what she says or else I will have my belongings taken away. What I'm told to do, I am fearful of doing so due to what I have learned and what I know. Truthfully, I wonder what's going to happen to me; his family says I am to die sooner by following my mother's lifestyle, my mother says I am to die by only living off of herbs, organics, and no medicine.

Here's my predicament, my confusion, my loss. I feel like I'm stuck in the middle of a massive tug-o'-war with both sides pulling with no hope of release.

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