Hi @rav3n im fine but a little stressed at the moment.

so I’ve already booked my flight tickets to go for solo travelling to Korea in December aaaaand the thought of letting my mum know about it and what her response will be like is what worries me and I can’t stop thinking about it… generally my mum is someone who is controlling & tells me (as her kid) on what I should and shouldn’t be doing. 

Last time when I told her that I’d like to go travelling on my own and she was against that as she considers solo travelling to be “unsafe” and “not good”.

I mean, even a long time ago when I told her I’d like to move into an accomodation (student accomodation) to be away from home, she was against that as well.
But then by the time that I made the final decision of liaising with an accomodation agent for them to book an accomodation for me (which was back in August this year), and then I messaged my mum on Facebook messenger right after  my dad continued to annoy me by sending me some positive affirmation related videos through her Facebook account on messenger (even though I’ve already requested soooo many times for him to stop continuing to give and send me those things but he never listens) and that was when I finally decided I had enough and that I’m gonna fricken send a message to my mum (and my dad) on messenger (cause my dad only uses my mum’s Facebook account) that I’m MOVING OUT. so that was all back in august anyway, which was what lead me to live in the student accomodation now. Well, after that my mum came to have a bit of a convo with me regarding that - but she just asked me some questions like “you have the money to pay rent?” In a concerned way. She didn’t like yell at me or anything like that. But yeah at the same time she just pretty much accepted it..

so I’m wondering if I told her that I’m gonna be solo travelling, I wonder if her response is gonna be similar to the one above regarding my decision to move out. But then she’s definitely gonna ask me how much I paid for the flight tickets and other stuff regarding the money I’ll be spending and stuff like that. Like I guess I get you might be concerned since I’m on Centrelink payments, but at the same time I’ve already saved enough money to prepare for anything that I know I’d be willing to afford for and thought be worth experiencing. Even before when I lived with my parents, I didn’t need to worry about having to pay $1000 a fortnight of rent like I do now.. 

edit: I mean last year when my mum herself had to buy some flight tickets for her, my dad and my sister to go to cambodia last year, I’m pretty sure iirc my mum told me she had to pay like around $3000 something for those tickets. I feel like the reason why she had to pay that much was because she picked the business class instead of the economy class (economy is the cheapest flight class of all). For me I had to only pay a total of $1359 something for the flight tickets (flight tickets were $877 + some other fees that covers important things) as I picked the economy option & thanks to my OT for suggesting me a ticketing service to look onto for the cheaper flight tickets