A Facebook user has shared her story of her overprotective parents who seems to be always wanting to control her life.
In her post, she mentioned that her parent still implements a 9 PM curfew for her despite being 25 years of age. They even insisted to have all the contact of her friends to that they could find out her whereabouts.
At times when she chooses to stay over at her boyfriend’s place, her parents will threaten to call the police to make her come home.
Full Story Here:
“This has been bothering me for some time and I just wanted to know what would be people’s thoughts on this. So for the longest of time, my parents have been extremely overprotective, emotionally manipulative and verbally abusive, from calling me cheap to calling me fat. I am in my mid-20s, and my parents still provide me with a 9 pm curfew. If I don’t come back home or if I choose to stay over at a boyfriend’s house, my dad will often threaten to call the police. In the past, he has called my number non-stop, and spammed me with messages, insisting that I come home, or he will demand the numbers of my friends so that he can contact them so that they can PERSUADE me to come. It’s gone to the point of insanity because I am already 25.
I study an intense course (med), get good grades and am generally a good daughter, but I am so sick of hearing my parents, calling me “cheap”, when I haven’t even done anything with my boyfriend. Sometimes, I just wake up and my mum will try to pick a fight with me in the morning and slut-shame me. I think she projects a lot of her own insecurities on me since she had me out of wedlock, and she’s scared in her own twisted way that this will happen to me. Yet, for goodness sake, I am already studying in med school and all my past actions have shown to my parents that I wouldn’t do anything silly to mess up my future. I don’t know why they have to verbally abuse me constantly. Once, my mum even told me when she was angry that I didn’t wash the dishes, “I wanted to abort you, but it was too late”. Like, what the hell?
I am actually an average weight (50kg and 167cm), but my parents have been fat-shaming me since forever. I tried to starve and actually missed my period for a few months (from lack of nutrients) and became underweight. I nearly fainted several times. Once, when I was so done with my mum, I told her that her comments drove me to that state, and she replied: “I don’t care”.
I have so many things on my plate but I have to live with all this toxic energy because I am still studying. I hate living under the same roof as them – I really think they are affecting my mental health. It’s easy to cut off toxic friends from your life, but you can’t cut off toxic family. Every day I cry to my boyfriend because I’m so stressed from my course and from all the negative energy in my house. My boyfriend has seen me cry so many times because of them and while I try to become immune to their verbal abuse and emotional manipulation by taking one ear in and one ear out, it is sometimes too much to take.“
