My parents weren't that overprotective of me when I was younger. Ever since I started college, the overprotectiveness has, like, tripled. It's really nuts. My unofficial curfew in High School was 12 AM, although my parents never really minded me staying out later as long as I called to let them know. A couple months ago, I was at my parent's home for the weekend, and I went out with friends and came back at 11PM and my Mom was waiting by door and completely flipped out on me.

"DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS?!?!"
"uh... it's 11. What's your problem?"
"WHAT WERE YOU DOING OUT SO LATE?!?!?"
"OH MY GOD, 11 O'CLOCK IS NOT LATE! CALM DOWN YOU CRAZY WOMAN!"

Yeah. It was a big fight, and I still don't know why she got so upset.

Nowadays, they're always calling to see where I am, who I'm with, what I'm doing. It gets me unbelievably mad.

I think the fact that I'm becoming an adult and moving away from them, they're latching on to me in a way they've never done before. It's really not cool. It's like they're digging in their claws and refusing to let go.