#or I'll survive on the dinner the monastery offers and take double portions to eat at lunch the day after? There's a way to do that I'm sure

[anglerflsh]

sounds like your parents want to to stay with them at home sadge, is it possible for you to get into a good uni at a place where they can't find you and get a secret job there? from what you post youre likely smart enough to be able to get a scholarship and those usually cover the first year,

hm do you have any family you can go to for living expenses that won't immediately report back to your parents? like a grandma or an aunt or a cousin, or maybe your friends family?

Taking the other family members out of the way because- they wouldn't work. I don't think it's this tragic yet. They definitely don't want me to move out but they at least compromised enough with the "being sent to a monastery" thing, so, I'm pretty set as university and places to stay go? It's just food and utilities that are an issue. University doesn't cost much here but I definitely don't have the money to rent a place and campus-apartments look at your family's average salary to decide if you get a free place or not and my family's... decently well off. Enough that I wouldn't get a free scholarship.

If it comes to it I'll get a secret job because I'd rather not starve, and pray they don't find out? Something like that.