About a year and a half ago I moved nine hours away from my hometown for school. My mother, understandably, contacted me a lot to make sure I was alright and eating enough. In the beginning this that fine because I didn’t have any friends and contact with anybody was nice for me.

Of course as I settled into life I school I made friends and started to get busy. Now, a year and a half later, I have plenty of activities between school and friends and I find myself missing texts from everybody because I’m doing something else and not paying attention to my phone.

I was at a get together with my friends when the conflict started. She text me and I didn’t see it until about two am, at which point I felt it was useless to respond since it would be three am where she was and I didnt think she would see it. She knew I was hanging out with my friends that night playing video games and the like so I figured there wouldn’t be an issue with me not responding to her text of “what’s happening tonight?”

This isn’t how it went though. In the morning I woke up to a text stating that if I didn’t start replying to her text messages that she would have to phone the police.

Admittedly I think I overreacted her since I don’t believe she would actually do this but the rest of the conversation progressed with me saying that I was an adult now and didn’t always have time to respond, her saying I always had my phone on hand and it only took two seconds to respond, me saying I didn’t always have my phone on hand and sometimes I just forgot to respond, her saying that it was rude, and me telling her that if she felt like that then she didn’t have to contact me at all since I was on my own now and could take care of myself.

It didn’t go exactly like this and I could get screenshots of the exact conversation if anybody is interested, but this is the cliff notes version.

Tl:dr my mom made a hollow threat to call the cops if I didn’t respond to her text messages and I asked her to stop messaging me.