LW does not strike me as the most reliable of narrators - her insistence that she's gotten over this when she clearly hasn't is striking - but one thing leaps out at me.
A 3 month+ grounding over a single lie about a single bad grade is excessive. Even if LW was a chronic liar - and with punitive parents, I wouldn't blame her! - that's too much.
Her mother wasn't an "angel" for giving her a one-dance reprieve, because that punishment was OTT. (And I'm generously assuming "end of the year" means end of the calendar year instead of end of the school year, but who knows?)
I don't know what really went down between LW and Lisa. I do know that Lisa is not the person who betrayed LW's trust.
Also: It's a tragic irony of biology and fate that the very worst years of our lives, high school, are the ones that are strongest in our memories. Therapy can help contextualize them properly, but LW is definitely not the only person in the world who is too hung up on adolescence.
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A 3 month+ grounding over a single lie about a single bad grade is excessive. Even if LW was a chronic liar - and with punitive parents, I wouldn't blame her! - that's too much.
Her mother wasn't an "angel" for giving her a one-dance reprieve, because that punishment was OTT. (And I'm generously assuming "end of the year" means end of the calendar year instead of end of the school year, but who knows?)
I don't know what really went down between LW and Lisa. I do know that Lisa is not the person who betrayed LW's trust.
Also: It's a tragic irony of biology and fate that the very worst years of our lives, high school, are the ones that are strongest in our memories. Therapy can help contextualize them properly, but LW is definitely not the only person in the world who is too hung up on adolescence.