'Consider it a hard lesson learned': 18-year-old girlfriend laughs when she backs over boyfriend's parents' $150 chicken statue, parents bar her from staying over at their house

When you're a teenager, everything feels like a huge deal. Because it is. You feel your emotions strongly and don't quite have the power of perspective to put it into place. This isn't a bad thing. We're all allowed to have big reactions and feel big stuff. Just because we're young doesn't mean our sides of the story aren't relevant. But it's important to zoom out and realize how the adults in your life might be seeing you.

They have a lot more life experience than you likely do, and they probably want to make some decisions on your behalf. This is especially true in young relationships. There is so much that could go south when it comes to young love. Hearts are fragile, knowledge is lacking, and emotions run amok. It's sometimes the prerogative of the parents to step in if they feel like something is going wrong. That's what happened in this story.

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AITA for laughing when i accidentally broke something at my bfs parents house, which possibly led them to not let me stay over/visit?

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What started as a dispute over a broken piece of art turned into a greater discussion about the rights of on teenage couple. On one side, the teens saw themselves as the legal adults that they were. On the other hand, parents exercised their right to control what happens under their own roof. Read on for the story.
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