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How I feel growing up and realizing my parents dumb strict rules were for a reason and actually made a positive impact on my life
2583 upvotes, 36 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in Girl Talk. "How I feel growing up and realizing my parents dumb strict rules were for a reason and actually made a positive impact on my life"
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Anonymous 21h

Sometimes I see how other kids behave and I text my mom telling her I’m grateful she is my parent

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Anonymous 21h

Me except opposite because I realized how stupid all the rules were and how they made zero sense to follow

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Anonymous 20h

I hated my mom at one point for doing literally everything in her power to keep me from a specific group of friends after I started changing, and not in a good way. I truly thought she was ruining my life and my opportunity into the “popular” crowd. Like we would have BLOW OUT fights over it and her being a helicopter parent. But (unfortunately) she was right and they were all terrible friends that made me miserable 😐 and I was much happier when I got better friends like she told me to.

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Anonymous 20h

Depends on what, my best friends parents ruined so much for me for no reason by not allowing her to do stuff w me just cuz shes punished (she literally did nothing wrong studied hard, nice to everyone, practice almost every day) and since i was an introvert in hs there was no one else id rather do that stuff with so it was a bummer

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Anonymous 20h

On the other hand my bestie grew with an absent mom who rarely enforced rules and she holds a ton of resentment towards her lack of parenting now as an adult.

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Anonymous 20h

How I feel growing up and realizing my mom is not very self aware 😭

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Anonymous 17h

I feel like people don’t remember that most of the time, parents do actually know what’s best for you. At least good parents.

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Anonymous 11h

My mom scared me away from boys so bad I still don’t know how to talk to them😭

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Anonymous 17h

Nah some of them were actually dumb in hindsight

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Anonymous 15h

In hindsight, I’m glad it was them punishing me and keeping me in line and not the cops and courts

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Anonymous 15h

When I hear all nt friends horror stories abt getting into really sketchy situations while I’d sit mad abt a 10pm curfew

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Anonymous 17h

i grew up extremely catholic and still ended up being a slut so 🤣

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Anonymous 51m

Can't relate to this 😔 I think all the rules ruined my ability to learn how to do so many things.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 21h

No same. I work with kids and sometimes I’ll call my mom and tell her how grateful I am for her rules

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 21h

no literally like some ppl rly have no home training.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 20h

The same thing happened to me literally multiple times

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 20h

moms always spot it a mile away

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 20h

Worst part is that I couldn’t even resent her for the helicopter parenting because as soon as I got better friends she immediately stopped helicoptering. Like she was genuinely just trying to look out for me and not control my life which pissed me OFFFF because I wanted SO badly to have a reason to be mad at her 😭😭😭 my mom deserves a month long cruise for the hell I gave her when I was 15

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 20h

That’s the flip side

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 19h

That’s actually the exact situation I’m in now and we are 19 years old kms

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 17h

In fairness to you- while it sounds like your mom had great intentions & instinct on the situation with that group- if that was how you felt, she probably didn’t take the right approach. I’m sure she did the best she could, but even most inexperienced, hormonal teenagers likely wouldn’t feel this way if handled in a healthy way

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 16h

Lol same

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Anonymous replying to -> #15 15h

Yes for real!

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 15h

No same while my classmates were getting pregnant at 17 and getting in trouble with the cops I was sitting at home because I didn’t have a curfew because I wasn’t allowed to go out

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15h

ppl say they got up to so much shit as a teen but that’s all survivors bias there’s countless stories and traumas that will likely never be talked about. Fucking OMEGLE??? And periscope god what was our generation thinking

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Anonymous replying to -> #12 15h

Same except I don’t sleep around but I live with my bf without being married so they still failed there 😂

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Anonymous replying to -> #13 15h

Haha I don’t sleep around either really but I do make questionable decisions sometimes that would send my parents into a spiral

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Anonymous replying to -> #11 13h

That’s really sweet and really well meaning but I was truly the worst hormonal teenager you’d ever met in your entire life at 15. Like worst movie stereotype you can imagine where the smallest comment would turn me into Godzilla for no reason. My mom had to literally put locks on the windows because I kept sneaking out at night, and I thought that was genuinely unfair not to let me sneak out at 2am on a Thursday and come back drunk LMAO

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 12h

My mom once said “those are ugly ass flowers” as this guy with a hibiscus plant walks by and he looked at her nasty and she was like “the fuck is he looking at?” And I was like “mom the windows are open”

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Anonymous replying to -> swimreaper 12h

I forgot to include we were in a Sam’s Club parking lot talking in her car

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Anonymous replying to -> swimreaper 12h

😭 actually craxy

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Anonymous replying to -> #18 10h

SAME on the other hand though, I was never allowed to have boyfriends/do stuff with boys and now as an adult I’m so decentered from men that I can’t get along with girls that revolve their lives around their bfs and I will always value my female friendships more than romantic relationships

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 10h

Yes same

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Anonymous replying to -> #18 10h

I read this as “from farm boys” and I was so confused because one, very odd selection of prejudice, and two, farm boys are genuinely so sweet and wholesome. Took me 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 read-throughs to get it right. Definitely going to be an early night for me 😂

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Anonymous replying to -> izzy_the_hamster 10h

Lollll 😭😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 4h

What do u even do if you’re a part of this group

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