📝 Mom won't give me and my bf space

By elegantpuffin • Score: 0 • April 8, 2025 1:17 AM


My mom (51 f) will not leave me (17 f) and my boyfriend (16 f) alone. Every time I have my boyfriend over (which is fairly frequently because he lives next door) my mom thinks we are doing something inappropriate/freak behavior. Me and my boyfriend have been dating about 7 months and friends significantly longer. We are very close friendship wise and are always messing around i.e. play fighting, making fun of each other, tickling. My mother believes we are getting freaky at all times and need to be watched like a hawk. Yes, we have done it a few times while in my house but have never gotten caught in the act. We can't be loud and joking around laughing because otherwise, in her mind, we are "getting freaky". We can't be quiet either watching a show together because we are "getting freaky". She even decided to talk to his mother to make a rule in which we aren't allowed to have blankets. All of this is semi-understandable until today when she decides that since we are giggling and cuddling(me fully laying on top of him, my stomach to his, which she thinks is very inappropriate even though there is no blanket and both of our clothes were fully on) in a position we were in for less than a minute and a half, my father(52 m) needs to come into the room and sit in a chair watching us. I feel as though we deserve a right to privacy as I am turning 18 towards the end of this year and my boyfriend is about to turn 17. She calls me into the other room while my boyfriend is still there and starts yelling at me that I was being inappropriate with my boyfriend because my father felt as though he "had to stay in the living room to watch us" when in reality he was avoiding doing whatever task my mother wanted him to do. I point that out to her and she tells me that my boyfriend wont be allowed over again if we continue to make them uncomfortable. Throughout the entire situation with my boyfriend she has said we have been making her "uncomfortable". We get privacy at his house when we hang out there and our mothers frequently message to discuss us, yet his mother only enforces the blanket rule because she thinks my mother wants it. My mother also says that the reason she enforces most of her rules is because she believes my boyfriends mother would be ashamed if she didn't, going as far as calling her while we are at my house to work out a solution to her being uncomfortable.Am I doing something differently than the way I should be doing it to try to accommodate what she feels is appropriate? Am I in the wrong for wanting space and privacy with my boyfriend?

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