- User type
- OCD Conqueror
- Date posted
- 3y ago
Sounds rough, at least u have a bae lol
yeah i just need some advice bc idk how to communicate with my parents
@LifeIsBeautiful I mean I would just be honest with them tell em that u are uncomfortable at your house, and that they need to give you space
@Twrecks i have and they are like “ so it’s our fault you feel this way “
@LifeIsBeautiful Hm, why do they not like him?
@Twrecks when we first dated my mom had no reason to . my dad liked him . we broke up for ab a year bc he was going through things but took his anger out on me and his family and was treating me like shit so we went our separate ways . we got back together and i told i’d stay with him if he treated me right . so he showed me better and i’m so much more happier now that’s basically why and my mom is not one of those people that let go do the past easily she holds grudges even when people show differently and she judges people based on how they look 99% of the time
So...move out as best as you can. If you go to school/work etc, try picking up roommates to distribute the cost. Trust me I get it. My parents are foreign. Even when they were more liberal than other FOBS, still annoying. Spend as much time outside your house as possible. And honestly l, just don't tell them where you're going. If you are doing you're best to be responsible given your circumstance, then they can feel whatever they want to feel.
i want to move out but they make me feel bad ab it bc they say oh but we pay for your car your phone we pay for all these things for you and this is how you repay us but they took away my car and won’t let me leave the house rn . but i do want to leave but that would ruin my relationship with them but i need SPACE . i feel treated like a kid
Ok so if they're doing that it sounds like they do not respect your adulthood. Look my parents gave said that too. And I hate to say it...even if I love them, that's manipulation (probably displaced emotions too). Do you have any family members you trust that you can talk to?
Listen I was a rebellious teen, seriously my parents were foreign and hated me being out and hated my boyfriends so I snuck out. I look back and see they were trying to protect me and thought I deserved the best , and I see that my s.o weren't the healthiest at the time. My dad wasn't a nice guy by any means and the way my parents fought always made me hate being home. I barely graduated highschool . I got a 1.5 . I'm in college now getting a 3.79. Living on your own is a big responsibility. I'm about to be 23 now and at 20 I did leave home for awhile only to find dishes were piling up and I wasn't eating right and I was just drinking and getting high with my friends. Wasn't ever the over the top but I realized I did still need to be with my parents, so I came back home. How are your grades? Are they slipping are they low? Sometimes we get so consumed in being with our boyfriends at that age that we miss out on the things we are supposed to be doing like doing well in school, clubs, sports if possible . I don't like some of the advice on this thread saying to not communicate with your parents, if anything you need /more/ communication with your parents so they can see where you're coming from and you can discuss what you wish they wouldn't do and so u can see where they're coming from and most of all to keep you safe. You guys need to work together and establish boundaries.
i understand because my parents are foreign as well . my grades are going pretty good . at first they were bad when i first was diagnosed with OCD but now it’s like sometimes i forget i have it bc it’s gotten a lot better . my GPA rn is a 3.8 in high school . i want to communicate better
It does get better and one day you will have the independence you want! And it'll feel great! So Right now focus on creating stability in things you can control like school so that you can get to a place where you will be driving, working , and having healthy relationships without you one day. If you throw away all your responsibilities now in depression and being with your boyfriend, you'll have to be playing catch up later. You will /have to/ catch up because you will have no choice. Your parents will not be around forever. Your relationship might not even be together, most high school ones don't, but if you told me that when I was 17 I'd probably have fought someone because I looooved my boyfriend at the time who had just as many home problems as me, if not more. Eventually you realize you want people who have their shit together lol.
Having healthy relationships without fighting*
My life has been hell, and I don’t know how to move on. I (15M) did awful things when I started high school, thinking being sexual was the way to connect. I crossed boundaries, overshared, and kept flirting with friends and making sexual jokes, even after they said no (all over text). One friend stopped talking to me and can’t even look at me now. I feel like a monster. Why shouldn’t I be locked up? If I got therapy, I feel like I’d be sent jail. How can I ever move on?Then there were these 2 guys who were older than me one was 16 one was 17. The 16 yr old was introduced to me by my online friend who is my best friend and I begged the 16 yr old for pics (idk how it started but after my friends ex randomly messaged me and sent me pictures and then blocked me right after I think I became addicted to chasing that high) the 16 yr old eventually sent me a pic but it was real and I stopped bugging him on it after that but i feel so bad I did that but my friend tells me not to feel bad cause the guy was weird but I still feel bad. Then the 17 yr old I did the same thing with him but went too far when I tried getting pics from him by using my best friends ass pics she sent me (she was 15) I don’t think I grasped how wrong this was but that’s not an excuse she eventually found it when I told her after she tried getting pics from the guy herself to try and help me and the guy got mad when she stopped talking to him cause we found it weird talking to him. I told her about how I sent the pics she said she felt sick but forgave me cause she thought I was gonna harm myself. Fast forward the guy told me after I had still been flirting with him that I s@d him (we never met in person ever) and I felt so guilty and apologized a lot and he got annoyed and told me that he had been kinda manipulative to me and kept me in a loop of mystery and I don’t talk to him anymore. But one of my other friends stopped talking to me after I was being by too emotionally taxing on him because I became very depressed and didn’t wanna life anymore and tried to stop lifing a few times. And now idk if I actually s@d someone if I did that to someone and now I think I’m a pdo and I think I s@d my baby cousins and my little brother and now I’m scared bf I can’t even get help because my parents don’t believe in therapy and even if I wanted to I’m scared because I don’t want to go to jail but I think I deserve it honestly why should a monster like me live.
So I and my mom got into this big fight yesterday and I said some things I didn't mean to say to her and she said some things and I know what I said was bad but what she said cut deep in me because Even though what I said to her wasn't good her words hurt because going through wat om going through rn is honestly the worst thing a human can go through my worries and fears now all of a sudden now become feeling of Suicide and self-harm and honestly she's right because at this point I'm at a dead end and there's no going back I didn't tell her what was actually going on with me because I know she will never look at me the same and growing up with parents that are Gen x back in the day mental illness is a fucking joke to them apparently and is not taken seriously not all of them are like this but I know a few now I've been thinking about offing myself I don't think I'm gonna make it I'm really struggling.
i (22f) am not a full blown stoner whatsoever, but picked up smoking weed years ago and use it pretty regularly now that i’ve been in college for a while. Not the best habit, I know, but it eases my mind so easily and is such a quick fix for my ocd when I feel really panicky. My mom caught me last night and proceeded to have a full conversation with me about it while I was totally stoned. From what i remember, She isn’t mad just really sad and disappointed. She’s made it clear through my whole childhood that weed is a horrible drug, but i just dont agree. I think that when used in moderation, like any other drug, it’s actually super helpful. I leave for partial hospitalization this Monday for my depression and she has been so helpful in getting me to the stage where i actually want help. I just feel so guilty now. A part of me is like okay i’m an adult and i can smoke weed once in a while. I did it in highschool in the house like a few times and no one ever said anything. I did it outside far way from the house, not even close to where It could bother anyone. The reason why she woke up is because I was too loud coming inside and then she came down and smelled me. Another part of me just feels like shit. I’m not an adult right now because i’m in such a mentally shit place and rely on her for so much. I should be respecting her expectations. She just seemed really sad and that’s what’s upsetting me most. It’s definitely a habit that has gotten out of hand in the past, but I don’t really want to stop. That kinda makes me sadder. (it’s not legal where i live but i bought from dispensary in another state)
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