Today, feeling very distant from my daughter recently, I decided to sneak a peek in her diary to see what was on her mind. The book was apparently one of those that play the sound of a woman screaming when opened improperly, and alerted everyone in the house to my actions. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found my long lost diary and curiously read it. What's worse than finding out that your mother read your diary? Finding out that your mother wrote comments in it. FML
Today, I was visiting my friend's new house and he was showing me around. I saw a small door in the wall and decided to open it. When I opened it, his daughter was hiding in there and screamed to scare me. Now I know my scream is more high pitched than his daughter's. I'm a 37 year old male. FML
Today, my dad found and read my diary. Most of the entries were about how my father didn't respect my privacy. Then he phoned my aunt and read her passages from it. FML
Today, I found one of my mom's old diaries that dated back to my infant days. I couldn't help but read a little. I'm now in great concern over how many times my mom wrote that she wanted to dunk me in the toilet or throw me against a wall. FML
Today, I found my diary on my mother's nightstand. Bookmarked. FML
Today, like an idiot, I accidentally included stuff I learned from snooping in my daughter's secret diary during a conversation with her. She's not happy at me right now, so I may have to polish off my old grovelling skills from when I was still married to her mom. FML
Today, I took a look at my 9-year-old daughter's diary, thinking it would be full of cute stuff. Instead, it was full of hateful rants against me and my husband, as well the boys at her school, who she called gay because none of them ever hit on her. It seems I've failed as a parent. FML
Today, I checked my sister's diary, because I was worried about her recent angry and withdrawn behavior. She caught me in the act, and my mom, whom I've caught blatantly snooping through my stuff multiple times now, grounded me for my "disgusting" violation of my sister's privacy. FML
Today, my mom read my diary. Then she frantically booked me an appointment with a psychiatrist. FML
Today, my daughter falsely accused me of stealing and snooping through her diary. She later found out that I didn't, but is still angry and not speaking to me because I "made her think that I did." FML
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Mearemoi 14
If you were distant, shouldn't you, oh I don't know, try to talk to her instead of looking at her diary? YDI
lilhellian 27
Say hello to trust issues and an even greater distance..
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Comments (140)
hfff13 5
What is wrong with you?! 1.) you're creating trust issues between you and your daughter 2.) you've shown you'd rather sneak behind a loved ones back than confront the issue 3.) you've put yourself in a situation where if your family knows, friends will find out, so you're changing your reputation... Great job mom! YDI!
HyperSquirrel 8
You need to give your daughter some space.. Try talking to her instead of invading her privacy.. & if she seems depressed or something maybe suggest counseling.. Trying to get to know/understand your daughter & get her to trust you doesn't involve invading her privacy & sneaking around. Good luck..
upsidedownn 8
Diaries are personal thoughts....how would you feel if someone read something so intimate of yours, OP? YDI. Snooping is a proven way to make someone become even more distant. Two steps back, in your case.
doodoo10 10
I need one of those diaries!
Bookoholic 11
Where can I get one of those??
rebecamp494 5
Wow.. That is what you consider fixing the distance between you and your daughter? I'm happy the alarm went off... You totally deserved to get caught... That is not how a parent does things..
AtomicRebirth 11
YDI for invading your daughter's privacy. Why not just talk to her instead?
Sarow_96 13
i can see why you 2 are distant :) :) u wanna bond YOU TALK not SNOOP !!
kmsmith87 2
I feel for you man, most of the people that a tree criticizing you flexible going through her diary are people that don't have kids, kids now a days are distant from their parents, that's just how today's retarded generation is, kudos for at least trying to relate to your daughter. and for the ones who have commented on this one negatively are the ones who's daughters are living their lives as audition for teen mom
vbmg152 19
I have 4 from 33 to 18 yrs of age! Ones a successful musician, my daughter works for homeland security & supports her own kids, my 22 yr old is in college & my 18 yr old is & has always been a honor student! I've never ever snooped on one of them!
DoxIxHAVExTo 10
So... I'm either guessing that you don't have kids either and just plan to snoop, or you DO have kids and snoop personally into their diaries. Tell me how not invading the privacy of your children automatically make those kids audition to become the next teen mom. Seriously, tell me how that prevents it. I guess you can say that if they're sleeping with someone, you can catch them admitting it into their diary, but seriously, shouldn't you already be on top of that? If they sneak behind your back and do something, the solution is NOT to sneak behind THEIRS. You should be upfront with them at the beginning, make them know that they can talk to you and trust your children. However, since I see that you already have no trust with the next generation - even going to far as calling it "retarded" - then I can doubt any chance that you trust your child in the first place. Maybe the reason why they keep trying to hide everything from you more and more is because you snoop around and desperately try to uncover every little thing and drag their personal stuff into the light, forcing them to grow distant and actually HIDE things from you to create any form of "privacy," even if it's a forged one based on lies because that's the only way. Ironically, you're teaching them to become even MORE deceitful if you keep trying to pry into their privacy like reading their diary. Now they'll learn that writing their feelings down can't be safe and they're equally vulnerable because their own freakin' parent can read it so they probably give up writing and hold their emotions inside. ANYTHING to keep their feelings and emotions private, because, apparently, they can't have it out in the open in the outside world.
vbmg152 19
You know, I've raised 4 kids & I've never had to snoop on them! They've known from day one that they can talk to me about anything! I pity these poor kids that can't talk to their parents! You deserve it!