So let me get this striaght:
If you’re an adult, and you live with your parents, you’re a worthless, craven, ungrateful sponge of a human being…
Unless you’re also a drug addict and convicted felon. Then you deserve nothing but charity and compassion, and you get a free pass to live with mom and/or dad as long as you need.
Incubus, it’s not too late to turn this pitting back to your favor! Quick, shoot up some heroin and knock over a liquor store! That’ll make everything okay again!
It is their home and their decision. I am just disappointed about the decision. I’m not a drug addict nor a shoplifter- nor do I feel comfortable living with one.
You couldn’t be any more incorrect about this matter. As soon as I get a full-time job I am going. If it weren’t for the play I performed in this spring, I would have been gone already. I can’t wait to be on my own. But I need to start my career first.
Miller you really crack me up 
If you’re only disappointed, and not screamingly fucking furious, why is this in the Pit? Not junior-modding, honestly curious. This sounds more like “This stuff is happening and it sorta blows” than “I cannot fucking believe the way my life has been turned upside-down.”
Meanwhile, “as soon as I find a full-time job…” “as soon as I’m done with this play…” “as soon as the Spring fashions change…” is not “I can’t wait to be on my own.” It’s protracted adolescence, and that’s fine and dandy and everyone seems to be doing it these days, but it’s NOT “I can’t wait.”
I didn’t realize there was a minimum outrage level for posting in the pit.
If there are any minimums here I think that Incubus has passed them long ago.
I’m not complaining actually, I may just use all his posts to write his life story.
I just need a title.
Well, if there’s a maximum beyond which one should not go in MPSIMS…as there is…then one would think (as far as annoyances go) that would be where the Pit begins. Else, why bother with the Pit if you’re not specifically following the directive:
“This is the place for all complaints and other discussion regarding administration of the SDMB”
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Taking that argument as granted, how do you make an objective determination of what level of ire or outrage belongs in the Pit, and how much belongs in MPSIMS? I’d certainly say that this OP, even under your interpretation of how angry Incubus is, is still clearly Pit material.
Obviously everyone is going to have a different opinion of what level of ire (or outrage) makes a Pitting. In my npf humble opinion, “Mom’s taking in her boyfriend’s ex-addict daughter and it bums me out because I might actually have to shift my ass before it’s ideal for me” is more of an MPSIMS whine than a Pit rant.
Meth addict here.
Feb. 2005 made it a year since I have used.
Let me say, GET THE FUCK OUT. If you’ve got somewhere else to go, then do it. If you don’t have anywhere else to then bolt everything down, get a security camera, a guard dog, and an alarm system. When I was hooked on that shit, I did some of the shitiest thing in my life to the people I loveed the most, because they gave me the most leeway.
I think you could put a period at the end of “daughter” and it would be both a perfectly pit-worthy subject and a more accurate summation of the OP. I’d also leave off the “ex-”. From what I understand about addiction therapy, there’s no such thing as an “ex-” addict.
As it is the nature of threads like this to become trainwrecks, if I’m not sure if something is pitworthy or not, I’ll put it in the Pit just in case. I see threads in other boards get moved to the Pit, but very very rarely Pit threads getting moved out.
I think this hijack should be in ATMB.
I’ve never met an ex-addict. I’ve met many who claim to be ex-addicts, but it turns out they lied. Or fooled themselves.
I know addicts in recovery, addicts who are managing to abstain for brief periods of time, and addicts who are taking the express elevator straight to hell.
A lot of my patients are meth addicts in forced remission due to being in prison. I know very few recovering meth addicts, but the ones I do know are remarkable people. Even more so than the standard recovering addict, who is a model of contradiction and hope to begin with.
IMHO, meth addicts trying to get into recovery should ideally reside in a therapeutic community for about a year.
If that’s not happening, be kind and supportive, but don’t be stupid. Keep your stuff locked up.
Thanks, Doc 
I really do hope she cleans herself up. Sadly this isn’t the first time she’s ‘had to clean up her act’. Her father has been dealing with this rollercoaster for ten years now.
Pardon my sematic error.
“…hopefully-recovering-but-not-completely-because-there’s-no-such-thing-as-an-ex-addict daughter…”
Addiction is a relapsing disease. I tried and failed to recover for a number of years before it “clicked”. A relapse is merely indicative of not working a correct recovery regimen for that particular individual. As such, relapses can be instructive and lead to better quality recovery.
Of course, relapses can also lead straight to jails, institutions, and death too.
It’s a pisser.
You’re (presumably) an adult, you live with your mother, and it takes a situation like this to make you THINK about moving out? Cut the cord… jeez!
Yeah, I would have thought the pregnancy scare was enough to make him grow up, but I guess instead it takes mom’s attention going to someone else.
“WAAAAHHHHHH!! I should be the only one freeloading off my mom!!!”
I was planning on moving out this summer. I’ve been looking for full-time work for two months now. My plan was to get a full-time job, save up some money, then move out.
I’ve wanted to move out for a while. But I didn’t want to live paycheck to paycheck like my friends do. I’d rather be financially prepared to move out.