Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
My guess is he sees you slipping away/growing up and it scares him and he doesn't really know how to deal with that directly on his end. So instead he converts it into the criticism and control and directs it back at you. That has got to be awful.
Right On birdgirl! Thats exactly what I was thinkin too.
ProGroWannabe Reviewed by ProGroWannabe on . So why do parents do this? My parents lately have been really getting on my nerves. I'm going to foccus on my dad. It's kind of long but something is really bothering me about my father lately. He's a middle aged man, he survived the vietnam war. And came all the way to Canada to live a new life. He's always been a dad whose always liked the control he had over my life as I grew up. Everytime I went out, I hardly went out, maybe once a week or two weeks he's always saying "Why are you always going out? You never Rating: 5