Today, I received a message from front desk that my concerned father is trying to contact me. I call only to hear that my parents were freaking out that I wasn't answering my phone. They saw me 9 hours ago. They were going to call the police. I'm in college and also don't live with them anymore. FML
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Today, I received numerous text messages from my parents asking where I was and how worried they are. I was in my room, they didn't even notice me walk in. FML
Today, I found out that my parents changed the code on our alarm system while they were out of town. The police could not verify I was their son, despite spending hours trying to get hold of them. They thought it was just another telemarketer. FML
Today, my mom called 5 times and I didn't pick up due to being in class at college. I was later called to the front desk, where my mom was crying. She said she was worried about me because I didn't say "I love you" to her after she dropped me off at college. FML
Today, my parents left for work before I had to leave for school and I decided to skip. I stayed by the phone, expecting the school to call so I could pose as my parent and excuse my absence. The phone rings and I pick up. It's my Mom, calling to leave my dad a message on the machine. FML
Today, my mom and dad went off somewhere for some alone time together. My mom had apparently turned her phone off and my dad left his at home. In that span of time, my brother had accidentally locked himself out of his house, and my sister was also trying to get a hold of them, and now are asking me where they're at. FML
Today, I checked my inbox and realized I got an email from a potential employer, saying they were having trouble getting a hold of me by phone. They called while my mom was using my phone to look up directions to a place, and she answered, kindly hanging up when they asked for me. FML
Today, I got a missed call from my dad, who hasn't talked to me in months and has vowed not to have anything to do with me. I called him back excitedly and apologized for missing his call, and we had a 20-second conversation about how his phone accidentally dialed my number. FML
Today, my mother panicked and was about to report me missing when I didn't answer her calls while I was at a movie. I'm 31, and have lived on my own for over 10 years. FML
Today, my father called me for the first time in two weeks since I moved away. Excited, I answered the phone. It was a mistake. He thought he'd called my sister. FML
Today, I moved out of my parents' house and started living alone. All of a sudden, my parents started requiring me to text or call them every 5 minutes to tell them where I am and what I'm doing, from 6am to 12am every day. If I don't, they will go looking for me, and force me to move back in with them. FML
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aback 5
Call them at midnight and reassure them that you're fine. And again at 3am. And again at 5:30am.
quirkygirl90 0
My mother was the same way when I first moved out. She would call just about every 2 hours "just to check on me." If I didn't call her by 9 pm every night she would freak out. She did almost call the cops once. I had to have a long talk with her about letting me grow up and be responsible and that I would call her once to twice a day and that was it. Just talk to your parents.
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Hlessirah 3
My dad did something really similar last semester, too...started freaking out, because I hadn't checked my email that day and jumped to the conclusion that I was missing or something, and then said he'd contact campus security to check on me. I wasn't missing; I was just busy with classes.
flgirlwguitar 2
My parents called the cops on me when I was 20 because I didn't call to let them know I arrived at school safely. The cops didn't even take a report. Here in the US, someone over the age of 18 has to be missing for 24 hours before they will take a missing persons report. They'll learn eventually. And the truth is, my cell battery was dead.
katieisacar_fml 8
#31 you're 20, but still go to school? Really putting off facing the real world aren't you? :)
poeticpunk77 0
maybe they meant that they had arrived at their college safely? just saying...
nyuukou 0
School can be used to refer to college, you know, and it's perfectly reasonable for a 20 years old to attend college.
lukascepanovic 0
some parents just can't let go of their children!
paramorefan125 0
jeez! I'm only a freshman in high skool nd evn my rents gimme more indepenadance thn tht! tell em 2 bak off Ur grown nd u dnt need dem 2 worry bout u nd u cn take care of urself!
Lisa89 3
Apparently they didn't teach you how to spell...
noobcaek 2
Hey, idiot. Try to yell at them and make them know you're okay forever, stop being OP. AND #33. Don't talk, OP is in college. Your so incoherent, illiterate to even form words.
decaturboizone6 0
damn this is definetly a fml. and for everyone that thinks it isnt try living with overprotective parents that will never let you grow up
brutal_banger 10
it's not a fml if they care about you but demanding to know everything and freaking out? tad too smothering my parents just ask I tell em and they never call unless it's an emergency
LemonStarship 5
Sorry for your lack of privacy
precious4539 0
My parents did the same thing to me up at college. It was a fml moment.
wow18 3
Wow that sucks Sadly, everyone who has had a similar experience is a girl. If there is a guy in there, then i might have missed his post but still majority is girls. This is one of the reason that contributes to the wage gap between men and women.
gingersnapper 0
Calls from overly concerned parents contribute to the wage gap?
Lisa89 3
How the **** does that have to do with the ******* wage gap? Seriously? Why are yout trolling with such stupid crap?? >.
wow18 3
If you people don't know what i'm talking about or what i'm getting at then you should probably just ask politely or do some research. One of the reason for the wage gap is women not being more focused on being independent because their parents never let them or forced them to always depend on someone. So as a result women do not care if they earn more money, and do not try to negotiate a bigger pay because A. They always had others do these sort of things for them because they were never as independent, or B. They don't think they need all that money because they can just depend on someone else for it, like a husband or father.
militarybrat 21
It was op's father who was obsessed, not the mother.