I’m a 20 year old girl. In 300 level, 3 more years till I’m done with school. I school in the same state as my parents but I don’t live with them during school days but I have to go home every weekend or days I don’t have school. I stay in a hostel closer to school, now my problem is that my parents track my every move. I’m not talking calling on the phone 24/7 to know where I am tracking. I’m talking sending my number to DSS trackers tracking, they track my calls. I don’t know if that’s normal. It started when I was younger. I thought, eventually, we’ll get past this stage. They track my phones, call my friends to know where I am, come to my class and ask me to come out, come to my hostel and ask me to come out too, they even have friends that they ask to check my movements in school. I admit, I used to go out to parties. Not all the time, at least once in a month then but it became a big deal. I had to stop. Now I don’t, I am not saying I don’t go out, I go out to resorts, restaurants and just leisure places with my friends but rarely because they still don’t like that and still no parties. They still do all that and I feel suffocated. I don’t want to tell them to stop cause they pay my fees and everything. They might withdraw but I don’t know. I don’t like how it feels. I don’t like the feeling of having my everyday activities monitored.
in Confession
If they are your parents, I don’t think they’ll stop picking your bills.
PS: You can’t fight them to stop but you can find a subtle to make them understand that they have to stop. You may need to add a little force but you’ll be careful with it. My parents might not have monitored me with DSS but they did the monitoring so I think it’s normal for us all to experience this