Is it normal that i'm really frustrated with my mom about this?
My mom and I have always had a strained relationship. She's very critical of me and well, I used to have very low self-esteem because of that. Thankfully I was able to venture out of that, but now that she knows she can't make me cry by calling me names, she's resorted to being very controlling. She's made it very clear that I'm not allowed to date, and I haven't. But one day she was looking at my phone (it was locked) and she saw some texts from a guy. I think they were commenting on some movie or something (definitely nothing bad and I'm not involved in anything more than friendship with him or any other guy), but she acted surprised that I talked to guys, and yelled at me that I was "on the path to being a whore" and demanded I unlock the phone so she could check it. I refused, saying they were my personal conversations, and now she took it up. I don't really care if my parents take up my phone if I truly did do something, but I feel like I didn't make any mistake in this situation, I didn't lie or anything. Am I being selfish or was she being too controlling?