guy help: why am i not close to my parents? - Help.com

Maybe its not you do you try to have a relationship with them

Why do you feel weird around them? Is it something that they did to you or you did something to them? Or do you know a secret about them or the other way around?

i feel the same way, I dont tell my parents anything, I talk to them, but we dont really see eye to eye on anything. Its probably just because your a teenager, thats the regular excuse, otherwise its something alot deeper.

it’s normal for young people to feel they are growing apart from their parents at some point. After all, that’s what the life cycle is about - growing up, growing into an adult, becoming independent. Sometimes this process manifests itself as “being uncomfortable”.

The important thing to remember is that they will still always be your parents and you will always be their child.

Always be respectful and polite. Love them in a quiet way if you like… not everyone is the huggy gushy sort of person but it doesn’t mean you don’t love them deep down.

I was much the same at your age. Gradually the tables turned and instead of discussing things with them and them giving me advice, they now discuss things with me and ask for mine. That too is all in the normal cycle of things I think. We get on really well, but we’re still not huggy kissy sort of people.

Things will work out.

I think if you ask them, you’ll find that your parents were probably exactly the same with their parents at 18 !

hey your a biological adult at least you aren’t fighting with them all the time like me. i’m ******* 19 yo and ive been to college for a year and they know i drink but i still have a ******* curfew. What ever your fine just treat them like equals