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  • spaceghoti
    +8

    I learned indirectly that I wasn't allowed to date until I was 16. My parents didn't bother to mention this to me, I had to overhear my mother mentioning it over the phone to someone else.

    We also weren't allowed to have cable television (in spite of everyone else including my father wanting it) because paying for it would also pay for channels that we didn't approve of.

    • frohawk
      +7

      I learned indirectly that I wasn't allowed to date until I was 16.

      I wonder if all parents do this. I didn't learn I wasn't allowed to date until I was 16 by the time I was 16. I mean I hadn't yet (except for that one time I was 4), but it would've been nice to know beforehand. I swear, it's like some rules are trip wires they want you to break.