<p>My mom expects me to spend all my time at home and not really go anywhere but maybe once a week with my cousin or best friend. She expects me to still follow a curfew and she can still enforce it by threatening to take my car away. I MISS my college and my friends there and I hate this town. I went to college so I wouldn't be stuck here like so many of the people from my high school. Anyone else feeling the pang of being away from college?</p>
<p>See if you can work out some kind of compromise with her... maybe a curfew an hour later... call her EVERYWHERE you go... a little truce/peace can go a long way when you're home for some time.</p>
<p>Tell her that you're really used to being productive and getting out of the house will keep you from getting too bored and going crazy. Even just walking around the shopping plaza is enough. Ask her if you can run some errands for her- so you get out of the house if she really expects you to STAY IN the house... just an excuse.</p>
<p>Yep. I honestly am mortified at the thought of having to go back for Christmas. I leave for home on the 22nd and am coming back to campus early on the 7th. I purposely minimized the amount of time that I'd have to spend at home because I know it's going to be hell.</p>
<p>AUlostchick, your mom sounds just like my mom! She always thinks it's not safe to go out late at night. Therefore, all I do is stay home and play video games or watch Desperate Housewives or Alias all the time. And added to that, I am a guy. It kind of sucks, but I'll only be home for a week.</p>
<p>No way; I hate college right now. Can't wait to get home to finally sleep more than three hours a night.</p>
<p>I enjoy home as much as college. I do miss my family so I'm looking forward to going home.</p>
<p>How can you NOT want to go home for the holidays? You don't love/miss/get along with your family? That's sad.</p>
<p>LOL. My parents are super strict...and there's too much garbage that comes up when Im home. Not all of us have perfect familial relationships.</p>
<p>I didn't even go home for Thanksgiving break. This is going to be my first time home in MONTHS.</p>
<p>That's pretty condescending, jonathan06. Not everyone has perfect relationships with their family like you apparently do. I love my mom, of course I do, but that doesn't mean I like living with her. We get along much better when we live separately. There's also pretty much nothing to do where I live because I live in a really small town. It's incredibly boring.</p>
<p>Where in Alabama do you live?</p>
<p>middle of nowhere on the Alabama-Georgia line.</p>
<p>At least most of you guys don't have winter break from Dec. 15th to Feb 2nd. UD is nutsssss.</p>
<p>February 2nd?! Who on earth gets a winter break that long....</p>
<p>Rotflmfao. Sucks for you. Referring to post #11.</p>
<p>I don't like being at home for Winter Break at all. Because I live in Europe and attend school in North Carolina none of my friends from home are on the same schedule, all of them are still away at university. My friends from school are in different time zones. It's so boring.</p>
<p>My condolences.</p>
<p>just realize that the more maturity you show, the better the chances are that she'll loosen up and break will be ok. I'm on my third time coming hom efor xmas, and each time gets easier.</p>
<p>I'm enjoying my winter break at home, but I prefer to go back to college because I'm always going out. :)</p>
<p>oh yeah, make fun of the girl who lives in the middle of nowhere. real mature, firewalker.</p>
<p>Hey, I'm from Sterling, its a DC suburb...and while there's stuff to do...it's nothing compared to NY. Think of it as good-natured intra family ribbing.</p>