[ SECRET POST #3467 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3467 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Questions & Advice

[(Anonymous)]

I'm going to France in two weeks and my parents are still trying to make me cancel my trip. I love them to bits, they're good parents, and I understand where their concern is coming from, but it's getting really tiresome and I don't know what else I can say to them. I already told them I'd text them every day, promised not to go out late at night, gave them my travel itinerary, and the number and address of the hotel I'm staying at, but they're still telling me it's too dangerous for a girl to travel alone and I'm gonna get lost and kidnapped or something. Has anybody else been in a similar situation? What did you tell your parents?

Re: Questions & Advice

[herpymcderp]

How about telling them it's your money, your life, and your prerogative?

Concern is one thing, but attempting to control your decisions about something as mundane as travelling (and not even to a particularly dangerous place) is quite another.

Re: Questions & Advice

[morieris]

Don't talk to them until you get there.

Take lots of pictures too!

Re: Questions & Advice

[(Anonymous)]

You could try to make a statistical argument that any of those things happening is incredibly unlikely, and not more likely in France than it is wherever you live (probably).

But at a certain point, if their concerns are irrational, you probably can't reason them out of it. You just have to say, you know, you're going whether or not they like it.

Re: Questions & Advice

[shortysc22]

I guess I reassured my parents when the first time I went to Europe by myself I did it with a tour, so they had an emergency number they could contact if they needed to. They absolutely did not contact them, but the reassurance that they could was enough.

I don't think there's really much else you can do. Have you ever traveled by yourself before? I do it all the time so as time has gone on, my parents have worried much less.

Re: Questions & Advice

[(Anonymous)]

Tell them you are going to the store to get a packet of cigarettes.

Re: Questions & Advice

[morieris]

lol

Re: Questions & Advice

[grausam]

tell them you'll ignore them if they don't engage constructively with the situation

then follow through with it.

it frankly sounds presumptuous of them at this point. you don't want to teach them that
a) they can force you to submit to their will beyond what's a reasonable compromise andor b) that they don't need to make an effort to control their feelings.
once you survived your fun France trip they will feel less anxious too.

Re: Questions & Advice

[kallanda_lee]

I dunno, my parents sort of trusted me? I traveled alone since age 16. Though they were rather upset when a terrorist attack happened when I was in India. Understandably so.

Re: Questions & Advice

[(Anonymous)]

You've done all you can to reasonably reassure them. Now you have to gently shut down the conversation every time they bring it up. Remind them you've discussed it already many times and you love them, but you're going on this trip and you're looking forward to telling them all about it when you get back. Change the subject firmly if you have to. Gently, lovingly end the conversation if they persist in bringing it up again.

Your parents are having irrational fears, and there is no magic word to make those irrational fears vanish. Maybe consider texting them silly selfies of you having fun on your trip, because visual confirmation will probably be more soothing than a plain text. But don't cave, and assuming you are an adult who is paying for this trip yourself, don't let them rule your life.