But there was hope....For the past year or so I've been looking forward to turning 18 because my mum promised that she would relinquish some of the ties she has on me...i.e give me more freedom. I mean at 17, she would rarely let me go out with my friends and insist on me being home early if I was allowed out. If I was lucky, I was allowed to stay out to 10pm. But she would always say...this is just until you're 18. I knew it was all a bunch of lies, but I suppose I wanted it to be true. So I'm 18 now, and things are pretty much the same. Recently, I've been feeling very miserable, don't feel confident within myself for a number of different reasons, and for me the only way to forget about these things is to have fun with my friends. I went on holiday with my friends a couple of weeks ago, and really enjoyed myself. It was like a breath of fresh air to be without the constraints enforced by my mum...I felt free!. I would go clubbing with my friends and arrive home at 7am in the morning! But now i'm back, mum is at it again. She makes me be home by 11.30, when she promised that things would change. Twice I've had to leave my friends early to go home, and it's just no fun. I want things to change, but I'm just not sure how to go about it. I don't want to anger my mum (she has a short temper), but I'm 18 now, an adult, and I deserve freedom!