Stepdad "grounds" 30-year-old stepdaughter when she comes home after midnight during a weekend visit, mom urges her to play along to keep the peace: 'Why am I being treated like a rebellious teenager?'

Even when their kids are adults with full-time jobs, children of their own, and a mortgage, parents still can't help but see their kids as the small children that they raised. Sometimes, it's sweet, but other times, it leads to controlling behavior.

When a 30-year-old adult woman got home late after spending a night out with her friends, she was surprised to find herself contending with an angry stepdad who claimed that she was now "grounded." She thought it was a joke at first, but he was completely serious. Homegirl was fully independent, too, with her own apartment, rent, and bills; she was only visiting her parents for a long weekend, but stepdad pulled the old, "my house, my rules."

My own parents are the exact same way; even though I'm pushing 30 myself, I'm not "allowed" to stay out late when I visit them. For me, it's not a big deal. I live pretty far from them and only see them once a year for a week or two; they don't get very many opportunities to feel like they have any say in my life, so I do admittedly indulge them in this way. Scroll down to find out what the internet thinks of this kind of behavior.

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My stepdad tried to ground me... I'm 30 years old

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Girl, this is your cue to leave! There's no reason to be staying in this house; this man is on a total power trip.
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My parents do the same thing, honestly. But they're more subtle about it; they'd never “ground” me for staying out late. They just guilt-trip me for coming home late – that they were worried, that they couldn't sleep, that I woke them up when I got home. To be clear, I am in my late twenties.
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