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Old Mar 30, 2014, 02:28 PM
rolan86 rolan86 is offline
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First I must ask, do your parents want you to be happy and find someone special? I am in sort of a similar situation. I am in my early 20s and find that my parents want me to still be a huge part of their lives, yet I still want to have my own life. I find that when I want to meet a girl, I feel like I am betraying them, because I am sort of living a secret life and not being honest with them about what I am doing. So for that reason, when I am living at home (I live away at college when school is in session), I do not even go out. It is just too exhausting, having to explain where I am going, who I am going to see, how I know them, etc. I know they will let me go wherever, but I just can't take the questioning, so I just don't even bother. So I know how hard this can be. But my advice is to just go for it, go out and meet people, and just be honest with your parents, tell them you need your own social life. I still have to work on my own situation. I have some weird internal issues with myself where I find it hard to talk about girls with my parents, I really don't understand it, but I think it might subconsciously be about me feeling I'm betraying my parents if I get a girlfriend (they want me to have a girlfriend too which makes it confusing for me). So just try and be happy my friend.