My mother is sabotaging my first solo trip.
I'm 18, graduated from high school this summer, and will be travelling to SE Asia soon! I'm going to be away from home for several months. It'll be the first time I leave the nest for such a long time and I've been craving this sort of independence. I saved up the money for the trip myself, although my parents are incredibly supportive and insisted on paying for some of my preparations. My mom in particular has helped me book the first few hostels, she's given me tons of advice and is super excited for me. I'm super grateful and fortunate in that regard.
Here's the thing. My mom has a month of "vacation time" from her job, and she has to spend it before the year ends. She's decided that it would be great to join me on the last month of my trip. When she suggested the idea, I agreed, but now I'm kind of regretting it. I love my mom, but she is a horrible travel companion. Earlier this year she and I went to Vancouver for a week, and by the last few days of the trip I was dying to go back home just to get away from her! She and I have polar opposite personalities, and being in eachother's for long periods of time causes nonstop conflict. She is inefficient, has entirely different interests than me, argues with people to get her way (like with airport staff, restaurant workers, etc etc) and it just causes me so much stress. I'm afraid that this is going to utterly destroy the last month of my trip.
She's totally mentally prepared herself to come on this trip with me. Today she told me we should go to a currency exchange together to get some cash for my trip ahead of time. I told her this is unnecessary because I could just withdraw money from an ATM upon arrival. She was like "Okay that's fine, but I'm getting it for myself then. I'm going to Thailand too, remember." D: She's also bought herself a backpack and a few other travel supplies. Basically, it's too late for me to turn back on this.
I was just wondering if anyone had some advice for me. How do you make a trip fun when you're with someone you don't really get along with? My mom will be joining me in the Thai Islands after I leave Cambodia. But this isn't set in stone yet, she could join me wherever I end up on the first day of the last month of my trip. Where could we go together so that we have space to do activities on our own, and not be around each other all day? :( I love my mom a lot and I want her to spend her vacation time well. I just don't want a huge chunk of my trip to be destroyed, and I'm honestly pretty disappointed.
Submitted September 07, 2017 at 10:56PM by annoyedgirl203903 http://ift.tt/2xSSZqU
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