I'm 17 and my SO will be 18 in August. We've known each other for five months and we've been dating for three. It may seem fast to some people, but I'm so insanely in love with him. He understands me in a way that no one else can. He's always supportive and loving and I trust him with everything. I'll be entering my last year of high school this year with plans to stay fairly local. He just recently graduated from high school and isn't quite sure what he wants to do with his life. We talk about a future together and how amazing it will be once we can actually be together. But there's a big problem... I'm petrified to tell my mom about him.
We met online on a website called omegle. Even though we Skype daily and message each other all the time, my mom has no idea. Last year, she went through my phone and saw that I had been talking to "strangers" (as she calls them) that I had met the same way I met my SO. She didn't approve at all of my online friends and took away my phone and my computer for a month, at the end of which she made me promise I wouldn't talk to "strangers" anymore. Because of this experience, I'm so scared to tell her about my SO. I'm scared she'll freak out and take away my computer and my phone again. I'm scared she'll completely reject the idea of him and I and that she won't approve of our relationship.
My SO and I have been talking about planning our first meeting and I hate keeping this huge secret from my mom. I want to tell her in hopes that she would let him stay with us if he came to visit, but if she doesn't accept our relationship, I know I'll regret telling her. My SO means everything to me and somedays he's the only reason I keep pushing through. Has anyone been in a similar situation or is there any advice that anyone has for how to deal with this?
We met online on a website called omegle. Even though we Skype daily and message each other all the time, my mom has no idea. Last year, she went through my phone and saw that I had been talking to "strangers" (as she calls them) that I had met the same way I met my SO. She didn't approve at all of my online friends and took away my phone and my computer for a month, at the end of which she made me promise I wouldn't talk to "strangers" anymore. Because of this experience, I'm so scared to tell her about my SO. I'm scared she'll freak out and take away my computer and my phone again. I'm scared she'll completely reject the idea of him and I and that she won't approve of our relationship.
My SO and I have been talking about planning our first meeting and I hate keeping this huge secret from my mom. I want to tell her in hopes that she would let him stay with us if he came to visit, but if she doesn't accept our relationship, I know I'll regret telling her. My SO means everything to me and somedays he's the only reason I keep pushing through. Has anyone been in a similar situation or is there any advice that anyone has for how to deal with this?
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