okay so I got interrupted so now I continue.

My 15 year old son thinks he should be allowed to do whatever he wants whenever he wants.

He feels that my expectation that he clean his room and follow through with his household chores is too demanding. He has gone out and not come home, until I've gone searching for him and found him. He has said "Why do I even stay here. I should just leave and go to a friend's house and stay there until you aren't so ruling and demanding." "None of my friends have to ask to go places, they are all allowed to drink, they don't have to help out as much as I do ( he basically has 2 chores - doing the dishes some nights and taking the garbage to the curb once a week. ).

I'm so frustrated.

I don't know what to do.

I love this boy more than anything, and I tell him all the time.

What's a single mom to do. I can't be home all the time, I have to work. I don't have another parent here to back me up, it's just me.

I just don't know what to do anymore.