My (19F) mom (40'sF) won't let me do anything I enjoy doing
My mother doesn't want me to have any fun in life, it seems. I am not allowed to go out with my friends, not allowed to stay up watching shows (or even watch them during the day) and she won't let me go for any classes I want over this summer. She has always been like this.
Whenever I do get to go anywhere it's a nightmare. The last time I asked to go anywhere was a moth ago when we had a graduation party with my classmates. We went clubbing and I told her this 3 weeks in advance while my whole class got to go for the whole night she insisted I go for only 2 hours (9pm to 11pm) but I luckily got my aunt to negotiate for me, but alas, that wasn't the end of it. She came to the club harassing all my friends that she saw around ordering them to go get me. This was at 12am. I came out and she wanted to go home but my aunt freed me again from her then I went back. She still didn't leave and stayed outside the club till 3am, while I told her I would call her when I was ready. At 3 she came 3 times to the club and again, harassed everyone there talking down on them and demanding they get me.
Everyone in my class didn't have this problem and I felt so attacked and like she didn't trust me, and without reason. I am a good student and I have landed a scholarship at an ivy league and I have never been in trouble, not once (I never get caught, at least lol). But really this is taunting me cause since then I resigned asking for permission to go anywhere, and now I live in a world of tv shows, but guess what, THAT'S A PROBLEM TOO NOW!
We've recently had our help leave abruptly and therefore I am the one who does all the chores. This means I have no time during the day to do anything I want and that makes me end up watching whatever I want late at night, just to feel alive, goddamnit. Now she just came to tell me she has a problem with that and that if I want to enjoy myself during the holidays I can just sleep. She said she won't pay for my data anymore and she just wants me to sleep.
I really do not think this is fair. I don't know what to do and I am honestly sobbing right now like what could I have done to have my own parents not trust me at all and also to just really want me to be some sort of loner hermit. She claims it is because I will miss sleep in uni so I better sleep now but what she doesn't get is I do this to fill this void of FOMO and a general sense of not belonging with people of my own age group. When your life is like mine, no one sticks around. I have no solid friends to do anything with because well, when you get invited to places and you say no too many times, people just stop inviting you.
I don't like how life is looking. My summer is far from lit or even mildly enjoyable. I love her to death but I need to get through to her about this. I am not happy at all.
tl;dr mom won't let me go out or even watch series/movies she just wants me to sleep and do nothing and as a result forbids me to go anywhere and will cut off my data. help.
Posted Jun 26, 2017, 8:58 PM UTC