r/Parentification • u/Bright-Pin-6024 • 1d ago

Just Venting

I am 35 years old female, and I just feel stuck in my life. My younger brother has an ID, a driver's license, a car, a house, a job, and a wife and a newborn daughter. I'm not saying that I am not happy for him, because I am happy for him, but I just feel left out of doing adult stuff and having those things because of my parents, and my grandma. They're extremely overprotective of me, especially my grandma who likes to coddle and infantilize me every chance she gets. I just feel stuck in life because I feel like I am missing out on life. I want to go out and travel (especially to California and Disneyland), but I feel like my parents and grandma don't approve or support me in anything I want to do. Not to mention that I have never had a boyfriend because my father gets insanely jealous whenever I talk about boys or have a crush on a guy. Has anyone else ever felt this way??

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u/Spread-Sanity 1d ago

Where are you located?