Do you think my parents are overprotective an exceeded there limit?!?
Ok, I have always been a good child all my life, I had good grades and was always on honor roll. I am 17 now, going on 18 in a couple months. I am also a freshman in college at a university. I am majoring in Clinical Psychology an a minor in Biology. I always had strict parents, my parents never let me went to a sleep over, or even have friends over for the night. My parents always made me go to bed at 10:00pm everyday! Only let me go to the movies if it was a girl, and they never let me went on a date. And I am also living on campus to as well, and they always want me to come home EVERY weekend! Also, every time I am at home they always keep me locked up in the house. I feel like I cant have no freedom what so ever! I cant even go to my neighbors house, and I have tried to many times for my parents to meet my friends and there parents as well but they always say "I dont want to meet them!" My first semester of college was fine, other than I struggled with Biology pretty hard and my professor speaks foreign, so its hard to understand him you know? I got a bad grade in Biology this semester but the rest of my grades was fine, 2 C's, 2 B's, and one A. Thats not to bad for a freshman in college an plus my university is catholic an its prestige! However, my parents freaked out about that and went crazy and before I went to the university I had to beg my parents to even let me go there and stay on campus. (I wanted some freedom, and try to work my way in becoming a responsible adult). Now my parents want to take me out of the school an make me go to a junior college over one bad grade! I have tried to talk to them so many times about this and it just wouldnt work out the way I wanted it to be. I really, truly believe that if my parents let me stay at the university of my dreams, I would work on Biology and dont give up. My parents are making it seem like I cant do it at all. Also, they wont even let me change my major, just a mess you know! I have always been a good child. One day I decided to stay with a friends over the weekend before I came home, and I told my parents that I would and they freaked out. I wouldnt tell them the exact address but I did tell them what city I was in and that I was with an adult as well. They freaked out and called the police and it was just a mess. I told them that I am 17 and you wont even let me stay over at a friends house! So my parents came an got me because I told them the address and that I am mature enough not to go behind there backs and act immature you know. So while I am on break, I havent been no where or anything! Its crazy, then they tried to take me to a psychologist but the lady told them that they are overprotective! My parents then got very vindictive, an mad and then tried to blame something on me so the Psychologist wouldnt pay them any mind. I am just so hurt, like my year was a mess and I lost my grandmother an my aunt. And all I wanna do is have that college experience. I apologize so many times and I sacrifice a lot of things, such as no FB and they want me to not have ANY social life at all!. What should I do? Thank you for reading, sorry my story is so long.
Plus my parents never let me have a job in my entire life!!!! Make me get off the phone at 9:00. I never been to a concert, never had a boyfriend or date. And I am loosing friends because of there over protectiveness. I cant even go to the store or the mall unless I am with them, they treat me so childish. Plus I am always doing chores! Please help thank you so much! :/
Yea I will try to sit down and have a talk with them, I know they want the best for me. And all I can do is try my best and be the best daughter they want me to be. I just want them to understand I am getting older, and I will eventually have to start making my own decisions as a young adult. I am the youngest so that is probably why they are so protective over me and I love them with all my heart; I just want them to understand. Spike X, I would have spaced my paragraphs I just wasn't sure how many characters I had left for all of that lol. Sorry for my paragraphs not being punctuated in the right format. However, I find that less concerning then my question I have asked, but thank you everyone who have replied. I will take all answers into consideration.