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HELP! I'm Being Taken Advantage of! What do I do!?
PLEASE READ THE DISCRIPTION. ALL OF IT! What do I do? It's not the same as it used to be. I'm this teen who is sometimes never serious. I'm not The Bossy type of person Though, So I don't want to hear all this oh you'll get used to it. Or It happens to a lot of people you know, Not just you. But When I hung out with my friends, I'm usually the boss if you know what I mean. And when I tell my friends to stop doing something they stop doing something. They used to listen to me but not anymore..... I feel powerless, Useless. Like I lost my Leadership! What ever I say they don't listen anymore and to make matters worst they are starting to take advantage of me.When I was boss I never took advantage of my friends, never.. But now I'm receiving all this bullshit from them. It's GETTING OUT OF CONTROL TO THE POINT WHERE MY MOM HAS TO TALK WITH THEM! (Ex.)So I had a bonfire with them and they put some wood in which I'm fine with that but then after they Took Gardening gloves and Threw them in the fire! Then I told them to Stop! And you know what else they do? They took the lighter that started the fire and Threw it in the Fire TOO! At my house, on my lawn, in my yard. Who the Hell does that?! Oh but that's not all! After that they were too stupid and went in my shed where we store our fire wood and found MOTOR OIL and was About TO POUR THAT IN THE FIRE! I TOLD THEM TO STOP MANY TIMES! TO THE POINT WHERE MY MOM SAW AND CAME OUT AND HAD A TALK WITH THEM! And Then they manipulate me and ask if they could spend the night. I said no. So my friend says "go ask your mom and if not ill ask my mom if you could spend the night at my house" I said "ok sounds like a plan". Then after I asked my mom if i could spend the night at his house she said sure. When I go back and tell him HE CHANGES THE WHOLE DAMN STORY AND STUFF! I can't fit the whole story in but you guys get the point. So HELP! WHAT DO I DO? SHOULD I BE AGRISSIVE? I tried being ASERTIVE AND IT DID NOT WORK!
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- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
Ya I had the same problem so I got new friends. People get tired of one another and start to lash out. Even if you dont want to get new friends take a break from the ones you have because theyre taking you for granted and think they can mess with you without anything happening.
If you leave them for a short while and they dont get any nicer than ditch 'em for sure. its not worth your time trying to regain power in a group that doesnt want to give it to you.
Though if they do start to become nicer than rejoin and it will kinda be like new friends again (fresh start)
- 8 years ago
Limits are a wonderful thing.
I can give a history about limits and people, but I was as an individual.
YOU, in front of your friends, you are more then an individual like I was.
Face it, at that time, you were a show.
IYou make it sound like you invited a group of people who didn't know you.
Maybe they did.....they knew you as Im this teen who is sometimes never serious. I'm not The Bossy type of person Though......
Reading your piece again, damn, you guys are YOUNG. And you reference yourself as a LEADER? And you reference your mom as a leadership point? <My un-aged logic just ran away, hell, it's probably old, old as hell>
Aw it came back.....was your group all girls, or was it girls and guys mixed?
My small opinion, never see yourself as a leader. Only other people can see you as a leader.....in my opinion, that is how it works.