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This is Evil Chakra Angel, Evil Karma Angel's little sister. Well, this last friday I became the only vegitarian in a more meat than omnivore house-hold (I say this because my veg-n sisters live in different states). My mother hasn't shown any signs of having a problem with this so far but my stepfather as had a problem with having a vegitarian in the house sense last summer when my older sister said she was vegitarian. this week my sister EKA and our stepsister Aly are coming over for a vist. My stepsister is vegan so I think her dad will be eager to get her what she wants and we might benefit from this foodwise for the week of aly's vist. But I don't know how to deal with my sometimes violent stepfather when she leaves, I mean he was reluctant to buy me Boca Burgers this weekend when we were invited to a barbeque. Any suggestions?

I can't tell you how much this rings true for me. sad It makes me worry.

My step father was a complete a$( who refused to let me be a vegetarian (even going so far as force-feeding me and other horrible things... I won't go into it) Truth be told: he doesn't have a right to become violent with you - EVAR!

It doesn't matter how old you are, if he harms you (ESPECIALLY for something like personal choice) CALL THE POLICE! I wish I would have known about my rights back when I was younger.

You have every right to be a vegetarian. Don't expect your parents to go out of their way to make it easy on you, though. But, equally, don't allow them to treat you like crap for it.

I'm late on this topic, but I've heard the same sort of thing before, just varying degrees. It sometimes helps if you show a willingness to support your own variant from what the rest of the family is eating, like in doing at least some of the cooking and looking for work to buy some of your own food.