Overprotective Parents?

Well not exactly parents as far as I am concerned, but guardians. So, are your parents overprotective? I am being nice when I use the word overprotective and I expect you to do the same.

How do you (nicely/with respect) tell them to back off a bit and give you some space of your own? Even though we're brought up / fostered to respect our parents regardless of their attitude towards us, it just gets totally difficult to be nice and demand for something which we deserve or is our right.

How far would you go?

for my right, i wud probably argue without going too overboard, and the moment things get heated..stop

Well, my father is overprotective. But I really like hime todo so bcz he is always right.

It's nice to see some obedient people here.

yes my parents are over protective ..and i love that feeling in greater %..shukar al hamdALLAH...but sometime i really want to do things my way...

while my parents are protective...i wouldn't go on to say that they are overprotective.
sometimes ive had to tell them bluntly the fact that they cannot always tell me what to do-we've had arguemnts..etc...but nothing that was disrespectful.
As parents, yes they want to shelter me and have [with their rules], but at the same time they have let go of me - let go as to let me make my own decisions, knowing that they have instilled all they could and should in me - its now up to me to take it and run with it..

if they were to be overprotective, it would only hurt me in the end

Thanks Yaar

My parents r overprotective...but I hav no probs with that--it is just a natural thing for parents, so I respect that.

Mine are a bit, but the arguement is that...how will the (muslim) society see this!

I argue the point with 'em that I dont care about what other people think...or if they talk behind my back...then they pretty much cool off cuz they know Im not gonna do anything stupid but just a bit concerned about the society and I dont like that!

Thats how I feel sometimes Muzi. It's always about the society. I mean why are they so obsessed with where they live (the God forsaken society) instead of who they live with (their children). They are (sorry to say) hypocrites at best. At one hand they want you to treat them like a monarch because thats what the religion says; respect - while at the other hand the same religion tells us to move out of your parents house as soon as you're married. Whats happened to us? I sometimes feel like a slave or something.

Hmmm..thats tru to some extent bhai, wen they start talking bout society and people thinking bout wat we do...its really annoying. I do care bout others but the truth is most of our relatives and people from our community r gossip lovers. They want the gossip and will pick up any piece of info and stretch it just for the fun of it. Thats where I start to get angry and think, this is my life and I dont care wat "they" think at all. When the society starts to control our lives and what we do, then it becomes unbearable.

I don't give a damn either Yassi but love them or hate them, you can't ignore them. I think we should start a new topic and relocate this issue there.

yes, ur rite bout that...

Done! It's in the same section as this topic.

parents are overprotective as they dont want any harm caused to their child ever