Dear Queenie,
I’m all grown up and married and living with my husband in our own home, but whenever my mother comes to see us she goes through my things (including things like a desk I share with my husband) like she did when I was a child living with her.
We have asked her not to do this but she won’t stop. She says it’s her right because she’s my mother.
Queenie, don’t we have a right to some privacy?—Angry daughter
Dear Daughter,
Of course you have a right to privacy, even from your mother.
Put some locks on the places you do not want your mother getting into – and keep the keys someplace where she cannot get hold of them. If she complains, just tell her it is your right because you are an adult.
