How to Distance Yourself from Your Parents

These following steps are for those who have a bad or somewhat bad relationship with their parents. This is mainly directed to teens who feel that they are just waiting to graduate, and in the meantime are in need of finding ways to cope with things. However, young viewers are also welcomed to follow these if they have a similar problem and don't feel the need to go through a long process of being adopted or taken custody of.

 Steps

    1
    Know that, depending on how your parents are, that they still love you deep deep down. That may be hard to accept, but it is true, even if it's a tiny bit, it still counts.
    2
    Identify why you want to distance yourself from them. Is it because of what they said to you before? Or how they treated you? Is it because they're generally emotionally abusive to you? Or you have different views on them? Think long and hard on that before anything else.
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    Once you've identified why you want to distance yourself from them, be sure it's a reasonable reason.
    4
    Now here's the part where you keep certain things to yourself. If you have overprotective/controlling parents, you may want to keep everything vital to you a secret, such as your boyfriend/girlfriend, maybe even friends, but not anything life threatening.
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    Try getting out of the house more often as well. Another way to distance yourself from them, and to avoid conflicts, go hang out with friends, go get a part time job, but again don't do anything life threatening. It'll just make you look even worse if you did something stupid to yourself.
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    If you're not an outdoor type of person, there's always the option of staying in your room and keeping to yourself. You can use your cell phone to call friends. Go on your computer and communicate on there. Play a game in your room.
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    Get a hobby of some sort, take an extra class after. It can be in art/drawing, dancing, performing, etc. Just find one that screams YOU and feel more confident about yourself, also a great opportunity to meet new people and make new friends.
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    If you have parents that constantly put you down, thus why you wish to distance yourself more from them, all of these steps are not only directed to getting away from them, but also making new friends and growing a new support group of confidence for you.

Tips

    Keep things that you feel important to you a secret.
    Be sure to not tell your parents directly you are doing this, it will only make them more upset with you and maybe even make things worse for you all
    In the long run, it may be a pain, but in the end at least you gained experience.
    You may want to explain to a few trustworthy friends about what and why you are doing this.

 Warnings

    You might not want to leave out everything in your life, and you might not want to be always avoiding them, try to include if not some, maybe parts of your life with them.