How to convince parents that solo travel is normal?
TLDR: I'm an only child and my parents are furious I'm not spending Christmas with them and am instead traveling. How can I make them realize I really enjoy solo-travel, its totally safe, and I'm not intentionally trying to avoid them every time I go on vacation to see a new city?
I have been hooked on traveling/hostels ever since I took an awesome trip to Western China during study abroad 5 years ago. For the past 5 years I’ve taken a 10+ day trip either Christmas or Thanksgiving (mostly solo) and gone home the other holiday to visit my folks.
I call my folks every other day and see them 3 or 4 times a year, but they always try to guilt trip me to seeing them more.
They say stuff like:
Variant 1) what if we got hit by a car tomorrow you have to treasure all the time we have left, your not being a good son;
Variant 2) instead of taking all these vacations why don’t you work harder at work or go to med school and become a doctor or go back into finance
Then after I buy a plane ticket anyways they say stuff like “oh your anti-social, why do you like going places alone anyways."
After I went to Mexico for Memorial Day on a last minute trip by myself instead of heading home, they straight up threatened to disown me if I traveled alone again. For my upcoming 3 week trip in December for Japan, I actually chose my destination so that I would overlap 1 week with a friend so my parents won’t say I'm intentionally being hurtful to them.
I love my parents but this is getting really tiring to the point I don’t want to answer their phone calls. Anyone have advice to help family members understand solo travel isn’t anti-social, and is in fact quite popular these days?
Submitted November 06, 2017 at 04:55AM by lordtian723 http://ift.tt/2lVGhpB
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