Hello. I'm currently 17. However, when I toured these colleges with my family I realized that I can not bear to be with them any longer. Please when I tell you this do not call me a spoiled brat because I feel guilty enough for the 17 years of my life of abuse and foster care even though my father is VERY well off. He can land me an internship I want and I never once was told no when buying things. I now have a spending problem because of this.
I made sure to work hard enough at school to get a full ride at my dream school. However it is across the country from me so when I move, I am basically ghosting them forever. The goal is to NOT ask him for money in the next 4 years so he doesn't guilt me or use that to his advantage any longer. I realize that I'm going to have to get a job, in fact multiple. I just never want to see his face ever again but is that even possible for me? This school specifically is known to be expensive because in order to have fun you obviously have to eat out, drive, etc. And I know it'll be so tempting for me. I know this is a first-world problem, but I really am trying to start my life new: feeling that I earned everything while my father uses his money/success to manipulate me. When I tell you I never want to beg him for money I mean it. The only way I would ever talk to him ever again is to talk about my sisters.
I know that I must start a checking/savings account. What about a credit card? Is that necessary? I wasn't allowed to learn how to drive (because he was afraid that I would run away), should I learn now? Am I going to have to figure out taxes myself? Will I have to have a separate phone bill? Anything else I need to know.
Submitted April 25, 2021 at 07:21AM by Love-You3000 https://ift.tt/32Sterj
