Oh dear. I defied my mother at every opportunity and still do. I'm not sure if that is a reflection on me or my mother

I answered the phone at 4 am. It was Mom, really drunk. Calling to say she was out. No kidding. Tried to get back to sleep after hanging up on her, but all that 13-yr-old rage was boiling over. WTF? My own mother didn’t follow any rules. So I ran away. In the rain. Showed up on my boyfriend’s doorstep at dawn. A drowned and saddened mess. Great time to meet his family. They let me stay until after dinner. It was totally worth it. Learned how to make chili rellenos, and that touching the insides of hot peppers can be hazardous.

Haven't spoke to my father in 2 years over his support for Trump. He got pushy when I told him what a piece of $h!7 I thought trump was, and got in my face like he wanted to hit me.

A lot has happened in my life since, and I've left him completely out of it.

Totally worth it.

My mom is more rebellious than I am.
Sure I’ve broken rules, but she wouldn't scold me for it. Instead, she would ask me what I learned whenever I messed up.
I’m glad for that.

I did it daily. It was always worth it.

I offered to fight my father, he declined and muttered it was his house his rules n i could leave anytime. I stayed til i found somewhere, which was awkward considering we shared the same bedroom (mother died, girls had the other rooms). Was that defiance? I guess it was. Before i left he muttered something about not having to go, but it was time. ?

When I was 17 I worked the Enumclaw fair and I had such a good time that when it left I did too my whole family threw a fit and said I couldn't go and guess what I had an amazing summer traveling all over Washington and Oregon almost got killed a couple times but even after buying lots of weed I came out alive with 300 bucks so I could buy my very first car a Pontiac Bonneville

I never really defied my parents, but I did defy my managers and supervisors at a company I used to work for. It was in health care and I had been trained how to do rebills of claims. This place was so backed up we would get repeat calls month after month. I continued to do the rebills after I was told not to do it anymore. The patients had a valid problem and were covered for the dates of service, so I helped them out the best I could. It was totally worth it. I knew I was doing what was right.

I never really defied my parents when I was a child. I just went my own, very different way as an adult.

I ran away from home and went missing a week when I was 13. It was not worth it - I had no idea how much worry I caused everyone because I was in a "nobody cares about me anyway" frame of mind.

I don't know if what I did would be considered defying my parents, since, really, I obeyed them in this instance, but here goes, to make a short story long: When I was twelve years old, I started smoking cigarettes. My father was a merchant seaman and would be at sea for months on end. When he came home from one of his trips, he found out I was smoking and gave me an ultimatum. He told me if I didn't quit smoking, he would break my legs and that if I didn't like the way he ran things, I could leave. So, I left. I ran away from home at twelve.

According to my mother I refused to be born at the appointed time. Rebel from the get go.

When I was a kid, I would go to friend's houses on Sunday, and not tell my parents where I was going, to avoid going to church. Yes, it was wroth it.

Oh far too many! Once I was grounded for not coming home on time from the local Park and Rec because a game went long and my mother took my shoes and said I couldn't leave the house for the summer. I think I 12, so I took a pair of my brother's shoes and ran away for the rest of the summer without reaching out and letting her know where I was. Seems extreme but, like all things, there were varying externalities that played a part.

Never did.. times where different. Respect meant something back then.

Every other weekend I was grounded because I broke curfew the weekend before. Totally worth it or I wouldn't have kept doing it

Joined the Marines and it was well worth it.I never returned home after that. I had a great dad and a mother from H***

My parents didn’t have formal rules. They assumed that we would behave in a reasonable, socially acceptable way, and we did.

Mostly be home by time, my dad kicked me out of the house the day of my high school graduation.
Still had four months to go to turn 18.
How would one know if it was worth it since it didn't unfold that way.

An instance? Oh man there were so many. I wasn't allowed to "date" until I was 16. Fooled her, I had been dating for two years and got pregnant for my 16th birthday. Even though, I basically went from the frying pan to the fire, it was still worth it to be out of her house.

Moved out of my parents house...

Granted they didn't really tell me not to so I don't know if it counts.