I'm 18 years old and in my last semester of high school, so she won't be a problem for me much longer. These last few months are going to be hard though. I've just been trying to pretend that I still like her (while I have to live with her) without telling her anything that's going on in my life. The effort of this is a bit straining, and I've almost gone off on her a couple of times. I'm mature enough to know, though, that I need to keep it together because things would be a lot worse if I openly showed my feelings about her.

I appreciate the understanding about the sleeping arrangements. There are some people around this website (not necessarily anyone in this forum) who wouldn't really understand, and I just didn't want anyone being rude to me about something that has nothing to do with my relationship with my mom. She did say to me once that she didn't care if I lost my virginity as long as I waited until I was 16, because that's when she lost hers...