“I’m A Grown Woman, But My Parents Still Give Me a Curfew!”
I am (almost) in my mid-twenties, in grad school and support myself with a combination of loans, scholarships and part-time work. Because of my grad school, my boyfriend of seven months and I are in an LDR and only get to see each other about once a month — usually when I go home to visit my parents, who are conservative, Latino immigrants. They believe a woman lives under her parents’ rules until she marries (even if she’s been supporting herself for years, like I have), and in order to protect my virtue, they’ve given me a curfew, driving restrictions, and time restrictions for how long my boyfriend can visit me at…
