How to deal with controlling parents?
Are you an only child? Sooooooooo you're gonna be 17 this year. That means you only need to make it til nx year. That also means you're gonna be very busy stashing any $$$ that you acquire. After all, you're gonna need every penny for your independence NEXT YEAR when you turn 18!!! Now does that sound scarey or what? Sooooooo then that's your goal. You won't have any time to think about your controlling parents. You're gonna be toooooooo busy trying to figure out how you're gonna pull this off next year!!! Who knows, you may even change your mind by then! :)
My parents don't let me live my life and I am 23 years old. What should I do?
As others have said, you put yourself in this very undesirable situation because by being financially dependent on your parents at an age when a young adult should be providing for himself, you have aided and abetted your parents in making you their hostage, and keeping you as such. You've never had a job before? Well, there's a first time for everything and you are long overdue on this important step. Get out there to look for a job that will earn you enough income to be self-supporting. If you are unwilling or unable to do this, or if you'd rather make excuses for why you can't than to try, you will probable be stuck where you are, completely dependent on people who see you as a child in dire need of their constant supervision and suffocating rules.The choice is yours.
I'm not allowed to have social media?
So I'm 15 and my parents are still way too overprotective of me. My mom hears all these horror kidnapping stories because of social media. Now, she won't let me have Facebook, Instagram, Kik, Twitter, Tumblr, Vine, or anything like that. That is the only way I can keep in touch with people and she won't let me do anything like post pictures. My brother found out about my Facebook and is trying to blackmail me into doing stuff. How can I make my mom stop being so paranoid? Nobody else's parents have a problem with social stuff. I can't even go out with friends or have any friends that are guys. She is trapping me and is taking away my life. I need this to stop. How?
I hate my life and literally have ran out of options. I feel like giving up?
22 (female) no friends, no love life or anything. My whole life I have been dealing with a real toxic family. I am the youngest and the scapegoat. My whole life all my siblings ever did was belittle me. They are extremely controlling, possessive and just mental abusive. My whole life I wasn't good enough for anyone. They controlled everything. I've been constantly put down my whole life. Anything I ever tried to do they pull me back and make me feel horrible. All I'm good for is being their YES man... and my parents do not take me serious whatsoever... whatever my older siblings says goes. I'm tired of it... my brother tell me no one will ever love me and that I'm nothing like them. I'm pretty (everyone tell me I should model), great heart, funny... have a lot of sense; I'm responsible, far from naïve... it's just that my confidence level was ruined by them. They installed so much fear inside of me. Anyhow, I put an end to that 3 months ago when I moved to LA. I cut them out of my life... after trying to tell them how they make me feel and everything.. they blamed me and said some harsh things. SO, I let them go. I recently posted a pic on Facebook of myself and a friend from my acting class. I look GREAT now (lets just saY). Now, my siblings are sending me fb messages saying things like; you need to be yourself? no one really loves you. You are a joke... and who do you think you are. All because I am getting my life started. Now, I feel bad again.