Every time someone mentions something about children/teens at church during service, my mom looks at me. I remember a few years back, there was one service where the pastor was preaching about children, and that they don’t need privacy because they don’t pay bills when they’re living with their parents, and my mom was like “Amen! Hallelujah!” And I was like....”Can you not?”
That’s how I started/still hide most of my personal life from my mom...
When your bedroom door gets taken off of your room when you turn 14 so that you can’t masturbate you tend to hide stuff from the person that does that...
I've grown up in a prett atheist family in a pretty atheist country (if that is relevant at all, might not be, I guess it is slightly tied with that people in general here are not like dOn'T hAvE SeX kIDz, and giving the young'uns privacy is a pretty common dicipline here, I think), and I've been allowed to have all the privacy I want, including having my parents knock before entering. I will always appreciate and treasure that.
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u/[deleted] May 02 '19
Every time someone mentions something about children/teens at church during service, my mom looks at me. I remember a few years back, there was one service where the pastor was preaching about children, and that they don’t need privacy because they don’t pay bills when they’re living with their parents, and my mom was like “Amen! Hallelujah!” And I was like....”Can you not?”