Mom found my cart and vape

A couple days ago my mom found my vape and cart while we were on vacation. She asked me to give them to her and told me that if I did, she wouldn’t tell my dad. I trusted her, so I handed everything over. I thought we were going to actually have a conversation about it, but we never really did.
Instead, ever since then, it felt like she kept using it against me. She’d threaten to tell my dad if I didn’t do something, she’d make little comments hinting that she knew I smoked, and it felt like she was holding it over my head instead of actually talking to me about why she was worried. She even started taking my phone over random things and it felt like every disagreement somehow came back to the vape.
The part that’s really hard for me is that my mom has had an issue with drinking for years. She doesn’t get physically abusive or anything, but when she drinks she becomes a completely different person. She gets really difficult to be around, starts arguments, and it’s caused a lot of family problems over the years. She doesn’t think her drinking is a problem, even when she’s sober, so it’s always been really confusing for me to be lectured about smoking when she was drunk while asking for my vapes. I feel like shes being very hypocritical and she seriously has a big issue with drinking its honestly the root of all my familys issues.
Then on the Fourth of July she was drinking a lot again. She kept forcing everyone to have “family time” even though nobody wanted to, and she kept making comments that felt like they were directed at me because she knew about the vape. At one point she got mad because I opened my iPad and took it away. My dad kept telling her to stop, and then she said something like, “Joe, you have no idea what’s going on,” which made me think she told him about the vape. My brother even told me he thinks she told my dad after they got into an argument.
Later my brothers and I took our dog out, and when we came back our bedroom door was locked from the inside. My dad unlocked it, my mom was in the back with this weird guilty look on her face, and my dad just looked so sad the rest of the night. I honestly think he might’ve been crying. I still don’t know for sure if she told him, but everything that happened made me think she did.
The biggest thing is that I love my dad so much. Also another important thing is that in January i went to a party and drank alot and at that party someone laced my drink and i overdosed at the party my parents came there ambulance came i almost died this was obviously a big big thing. After everything that happened at the party months ago, I worked really hard to rebuild his trust. He’s been really protective because he was scared of losing me, and he always asks me not to smoke or drink. I’m terrified that if he knows, he’s going to be so disappointed in me.
I know vaping wasn’t a good decision, and I’m not trying to act like it was okay. I’m just really hurt by how my mom handled everything. I feel like instead of sitting down and talking to me because she cared, she used it as something to threaten me with and hold over my head. I honestly don’t know if I’m overreacting or if my feelings make sense. We just got home from the beach and neither of them have even talked to me about it. I also believe what happened is that my dad confronted her agian about her drinking and told her this needs to stop when we were outside and what she did was switch the issue of het drinking into me smoking this is doesn’t seem like shes trying to help me at all clearly she used this as a tactic to control the situation. Another thing was when we came back in and sat down my mom looked at me and said “ look whos side hes on now” and i was confused like what are you talking about then later i realized she ment my dad. He was defending me earlier when she was practically bullying me so when he called her out she got pissed and told him when she was the one who told me earlier not to ruin his vacation and to wait till we got home. And now im home me and my brother are trying to throw all of out stuff out but im contemplating if i should just take the punishments that my mom will enforce plus my dad wich i think im not even gonna have a punishment i think its just going to be im not allowed out for a while and a long conversation. But im really really fed up with my mom stuff like this has been going on since i was a baby im 16 her drinking as only gotten worse and i want to say everything to her but i dont know if it will make it all worse because she literally will not accept being called an alcoholic. Ive had a very hard past 6 months ik vaping is bad ik i got caught but theres so many other points involved that i dont know what to do.

Posted Jul 6, 2026, 9:03 PM UTC

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