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How am I suppose grow up?!?
I am I am twenty years old and I am stuck doing things with my mom. If she goes out shopping I most likely go out with her, and now I barely go out with my friends because they are out doing what they want to do! My parents are overprotective; they wont let me drive, go out driving with my friends, or go off on walks (and I live in the middle of nowhere). I am the youngest out of two and I get how she cant let go, but I want to be able to do what a twenty year old is suppose to do. I am shy and I know they are worried about me not being able to handle myself, but isn't that what life is about is learning, and they aren't helping cause I think they are making me more shy! My mom says I have to get meaner because that is how she let my brother go, but I cant cause I have a nice personality, and whenever I try to tell her she needs to let me go I start to cry and end it! How am I suppose to grow up?!
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- Anonymous7 years agoFavorite Answer
Im 19 & my mom is overprotective too my curfew is 8 ! And I have a car BUT im not allowed to drive it ! Only to work . Which is stupid bcuz I pay the insurance and put my own gas . And I get you I don't like standing up for myself because I'm scared :/ I'm scared to tell my mom that imma come home whenever I want to come home because I'm old enough . I don't know how other people do it . But I just don't want to fight with my mom so I just listen but it's affecting my relationship with my boyfriend :( so if I were you I would juss sit down and have a talk with her no yelling just a talk tell her how u feel . Moms that are overprotective push they're kids away and that's wat makes them want to leave and move out . It hurts when a mom is like that with they're daughters because it makes them not have a good relationship and it's sad :/ juss talk to her .
Source(s): Experience - What's Up?Lv 67 years ago
Sometimes you just have to make responsible decisions that you feel are right for you and just go with it.
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Sail away from the safe harbor.
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– Mark Twain
- 7 years ago
Tell your parents that you're not going to change for nobody and just start doing what you want to do. You should still be in College somewhere or working taking care of yourself even if you still live at home. My oldest sister passed away in a car accident at the age of 16 and I was 14 and my parents wouldn't let me do anything after that so I told them what I was going to do and even if they said No I went for it or only difference is our ages honey toodles!
