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Most college students stress about exams or rent, but this one had to worry about their mom knowing their every move.<\/p>\n
After years of being monitored through iPhone\u2019s \u201cFind My\u201d app, he finally switched to an Android\u2026 and sparked a family meltdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n Keep reading for the full story.<\/p>\n After 4 years of having an iPhone SE, and more of having other iPhones, I (age 22) recently bought an Android phone (Samsung A25).<\/p>\n This has lots of reasons\u2014mainly storage issues and my mother controlling me over the \u201cFind My\u201d application from Apple.<\/p>\n For his mother, her obsessive tracking closely related to her health problems.<\/p>\n She uses this to get herself more relaxed. Sometimes she has digestion problems when my phone is apparently stuck in a shopping mall overnight (because the battery died), just to give an example.<\/p>\n The family has a history with secrecy.<\/p>\n I am not able to turn the location off (I don\u2019t know the password to the Apple ID\u2014only my parents do\u2014and they obviously don\u2019t give it to me for this reason).<\/p>\n So he decided to ditch iPhone entirely.<\/p>\n So I had to buy a new Android phone as I consider myself old enough to live without their supervision.<\/p>\n I had a phone call with my father today, and he seemed not happy about what I had done.<\/p>\n This created a storm of drama.<\/p>\n I am the first in my family not to have an iPhone. We need to transfer all data, etc., and my mother will probably suffer under psychosomatic effects.<\/p>\n I should say that I\u2019m a student, so I don\u2019t have a regular revenue and depend roughly half on my parents when it comes to money.<\/p>\n AITA for buying this phone?<\/p>\n He was just trying to claim a little autonomy, but his parents saw it as an act of defiance.<\/p>\n What did Reddit think?<\/p>\n Eventually, his mother will have to come to grips with the fact she can\u2019t always know where he is.<\/p>\n It\u2019s time the family stop enabling this mother\u2019s obsessive behavior.<\/p>\n There are other ways to escape his mother\u2019s control other than switching to an entirely new operating system.<\/p>\n This user affirms that this college student did the right thing here.<\/p>\n He may have gained privacy with a new phone, but it came at the cost of family peace.<\/p>\n Now he\u2019s left wondering: Is independence is worth the emotional backlash?<\/p>\n If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a daughter who invited herself to her parents\u2019 40th anniversary vacation for all the wrong reasons<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\t\tCategories: STORIES<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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