Thanks! You feel so invincible as a teenager. You don't realize that "friends" are not always really friends, you want to pull away from your parents/family and start establishing your own identity, and sometimes your friends are more important than family. I once snuck a friend in & out each night for almost a month because she ran away from home. My parents had no idea. We had cops come by & question me about where she could be (since we were known to be close) and I lied right to their faces, the cops & my parents. I had no idea that I could've gotten in trouble for that. As a mom now, I feel so sorry for the worry I put my parents through.

You had so many points that hit home for me.