My parents read my diary
By 41Combedale
@41CombedaleRoad (5967)
Greece
November 18, 2015 7:02am CST
I often read posts where people are sharing some very personal problems and thoughts. I think it is very brave of them particularly if they have been hurt in some way, by putting it here they may risk further hurts.
I never write about how I feel although for years I have kept a diary. The reason must be because when I was a teenager and wrote my heart into my diary, my parents read it. Not only read it but scolded me about what I had written.
So now, although I am not reluctant to share my feelings, I will only do so orally with friends on occasions but I will never commit to writing it down.
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@LovingMyBabies (85295)
• Valdosta, Georgia
18 Nov 15
My mother read my diary when I was around 11 years old and she ripped it into pieces so my father couldn't read it. It still upsets me thinking about that because those were my thoughts and feelings-whether she liked it or not I had a right to those.
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@LovingMyBabies (85295)
• Valdosta, Georgia
20 Nov 15
@41CombedaleRoad Yeah I know that's why she did it but I still don't think it was the right thing to do. And now I so wish I could look back on the diary and read what I was thinking back then.
@41CombedaleRoad (5967)
• Greece
20 Nov 15
I suppose she was afraid of what your father might do if he read it. All the same it was not her property to destroy.
@41CombedaleRoad (5967)
• Greece
20 Nov 15
Oh Anna what a tricky child you were or wise beyond your years?
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@LadyDuck (472566)
• Switzerland
20 Nov 15
@41CombedaleRoad I was so upset when I discovered that my Mom read my diary, that I decided to punish her cheating.
@BelleStarr (61355)
• United States
18 Nov 15
I also kept a diary as a teen but I am quite sure my mother never read mine. I don't write too much of a personal nature especially on sites likes these.
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@babaraimc (1310)
• Pakistan
18 Nov 15
you are right and it isn't a good idea to post your problems in a social site
i never did this
i always tried to tell my problems to minimum number of people
posting your problem will just make you miserable
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@41CombedaleRoad (5967)
• Greece
20 Nov 15
that is true, publishing our problems is best avoided. A problem shared is not always a problem halved, as the saying goes. Sometime it is a problem magnified.
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@babaraimc (1310)
• Pakistan
20 Nov 15
@41CombedaleRoad we should share it , but with our close friends and family members only
@wetnosedogs (1533)
• United States
18 Nov 15
Oh dear. A big no-no on your parents part. Hope you all are over it.
@41CombedaleRoad (5967)
• Greece
20 Nov 15
Once bitten, twice shy so I have my secrets that I will never share.
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@Morleyhunt (21742)
• Canada
18 Dec 15
My mother had no respect of our privacy. I chose not to write my thoughts on paper.
@btyc87 (4)
• Beijing, China
19 Nov 15
The diary is a private stuff, and i think it is a bad behaviour of your parents to read your diary without your permission, and even scold for your thought, you could keep writing if you wish, but you can hide the diary in a secret place.Another method is writing diary on the internet,there are many websites relative to it, where your diary is strictly confidential.
@Gloriange (56)
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25 Dec 15
I have fleeting memories of myself reading my sister's diary when I was about 11 years old. It was a diary with key lock and I felt so excited when it started to open.
What I found was not really nice stuff. Then when I saw her, I thought to myself something like "So,... that's the way you want it to be..." I was kind of disturbed.
