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21 People Reveal The Hardest Thing They’ve Ever Had To Explain To Their Parents

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When I was a junior in highschool, I’d gotten a freshman pregnant. We kept it a secret and I was going help her with everything but her mom caught on after about 3 months, she actually miscarried later the same day her parents found out. Parents didn’t know we were sexually active at all, but it ended up with her being put on birth control and when I told my parents (I was forced to) my dad just said “well, I can’t really yell at you, same thing happened when I was your age.”

11.

I called my mom at 1:00 AM her time to tell her that I was not in fact 18 months clean and sober, I was standing outside of the emergency room I had just been discharged from on the other side of the country, I had been shooting heroin and cocaine for several months, to ask her if she could help me go back to detox/rehab so I didn’t die from benzodiazepine withdrawals. Not a fun conversation.

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Severe depression. They don’t fully understand the depth of negativity I can drop to. But that’s for the best.

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My mother visited my apartment once while I was gone. Found a zippo, an ashtray, a pack of cigarettes and a bunch of filters. Nothing of this belonged to me, it was all stuff friends left there. Now she still thinks I’m a regular smoker. I haven’t smoked a cigarette in three years. Obviously she does not believe me.

Written by Laura McNairy

Laura is a freelance writer for TFLN. She likes to write about what she knows best — dating, sex, and being awkward, but usually in the opposite order. She is the Assistant Editor and videographer for Peach Fuzz, a sex-positive nudie magazine in ATX.