I want to run away from home. Should I?
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Moderated by Smita Joshi, BA Psychology / MA / Advanced EFT Practitioner
Updated: May 7, 2023
Anonymous
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Mar 3, 2016
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Life might seem hard right now, but things will look up. If you are set on running away, try and think about where you would go and if it would be beneficial. would conditions worsen?
Anonymous
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Mar 5, 2016
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Talk to your parents whenever they are free enough to spend sometime for you. But most importantly when you are willing to open up as they would have tons of questions to ask so you must be prepared to answer them peacefuly. If you don't like being interrogated, then tell them to just listen to you without being questioned before hand
Anonymous
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Mar 12, 2016
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You should not because just like inside out your parents might be worried sick for seeing you run away from certain reason or purposes they might think they have done something wrong to make you decide to take off.
LucyCat20
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Mar 12, 2016
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its not a good idea, the problems you are facing wont go away as predicted you should talk to an adult
Anonymous
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Mar 18, 2016
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Usually the same problems we run away from are just waiting for us in another form elsewhere. I believe there's some sort of order in the universe, and barring anything really extreme the situation you've been presented with is likely something that it's good for you to learn to skillfully overcome.
Syidren
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Mar 19, 2016
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"Running away" is never the answer, the issues and the problems most often follow. Depending on the situation you may need to leave home, but running generally is not the best idea.
Anonymous
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Mar 20, 2016
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Nope ! You will lose more than you will gain. Running away from any place or thing or person is just a bad idea, confront it, fight it and survive it but do not run away cowardly, separate with dignity and for that become independent enough.
RedRose82
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Mar 22, 2016
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Before you make such a big decision, what are the pros and cons to running away? Would your life be better on the street or at home? Would you be safer? What about shelter? Food? There are so many more things to worry about, think it through before deciding anything.
Anonymous
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Mar 24, 2016
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Running away from home is a serious deal. Having ran away from home myself at a young age, I found that by doing that it hurt more people and only made things more worse. It's not like the movies where the parents forgive you automatically. Running away from home I realized was me running away from my problems. I advise anyone who would consider to run away from home, to take some time to think of those you will hurt in the process of running away, and whether or not that is really something you want to risk.
Daydreamer7
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Mar 26, 2016
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It shouldn't be your top priority. You must first try to sort things out in a generalized manner. Abandoning one's home is usually an act of rebellion, it could even be of an ambitious drive but whatever your reason might be, please ask yourself if its really something worth taking the risk. Lastly, don't pack your bags and hop on a ride for a hippie kind of trip, plan out everything.
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