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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/DocumentDelicious177 on 2023-09-22 01:01:03.

I know this is fairly common, unfortunately. For so long my family used me as a therapist, just talking about one another. When I tried to get a word in… suddenly they had to go. So judgemental, aunts told me not to go xyz place, that some crime occurred there so it’s dangerous. But a lot of pressure to have a boyfriend… oh but friends are fake you don’t need them. I distanced myself. They told me not to let others influence my life because they wasted their life listening to other people… but in my big age (in my 20s) they’re telling me I shouldn’t go to therapy or get put on antidepressants because it makes you addicted… I’m itching to tell them “yea like ur drinking” but that would be rude.

They talk and mull over the past, so many women in my family are obsessed with their adult sons and saying the wife pulls them away from the family. And my brother is 19 and they let him do whatever. They don’t tell him anything because he’s a mommas boy. My mom does everything for him… but him and my dad would tell me to wash the dishes. He goes out and doesn’t have a curfew. I do. I moved out for a while but it did not financially work out- I got into a mess. I’m back at home. I don’t hear the end of it. I wanna pull my hair out. Even going out, my aunts see me out, or other family hears me come home at 10pm and they tell each other and my dad. I’m so sick of it. They called me a “street girl” for going to my friends bday dinner and coming home at 10. I’m lucky to even have some friends left but I don’t have a good support system and I’m like this close to losing it