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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So sorry to hear this.

My niece left with her boyfriend for a year to bum around the country.  After a year of living day to day sleeping in a car or sketchy places and scrounging for food and showers, she'd had it, came home, and went off to college.

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You make that sound so bad but I did the exact same thing at 18 with my boyfriend and it was wonderful! Why is it bad? It is great for kids to get some real life experience. Btw, I went on to college directly after that year and married the guy after college. We are still together 27 years later. At 18, you need to let them go their own way. The control is over. [/quote]

Well, didn't mean it to.  She had the time of her life for the first months, but then the sheer grind of day to day survival got to her.  Things kind of work out that way.  She got some great life experience, a lot of fun (for a while), and came back way more appreciative of her parents and their bourgeois life and ready to seriously tackle and focus on college.

Her parents were completely appalled when it happened (and they were real parents of the late sixties, early seventies--father had a jail stint for simple marijuana possession), but ultimately it fell into the all's well that ends well category.[/quote]

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