Parents.. Can't live with them.. Can't live without them..

I just wanna vent.. Don't really need advice though, just wanna get this off my chest..

I can never win with my Dad when it comes to me being sick.. When I am sick and I decide I am too sick to go to work and then I go and see the doctor and the doctor tells me to have X amount of days off to rest and get better, then that's what I am gonna do.. If I feel better before then, I will go back earlier.

However, it always seems that whenever I do take time off from work when I am sick..My dad always has to have his say.. Thinking I should be at work and not taking too much time off.. And it always makes me feel bad.. But then if I decide to go to work when I am sick and risking getting my work colleagues sick as well, he then thinks I should be at home and why am I at work when I am too sick.. I can just never win with him.. No matter what I do, I can never win, it's a no win situation. If I go to work sick, he Lectures me, if I home cause I feel too sick or don't want to get others sick, he also lectures me..

I respect my parents and they are always really supportive but this really bothers me.. My mum gets bothered by me staying home too but she shows it in a different way.. Just giving me an angry tone or disappointed sighs or looks, but then gets mad at my dad when he says something.. So she is kind of hypocritical.. I am 29 years old.. It is my responsibility to decide these things and I don't think it's up to them to judge me when I stay home sick just because they both try to battle on and end up being sick for longer cause they don't take the time to rest. :tantrum::icon_sad::bang:

 

Thanks, knowing someone else knows what it is like makes me feel a bit better to know I am not alone. I love my parents, but sometimes they still treat me like a little kid and are over protective at times.

 

I live at home in this granny flat, but it is still attached to the main house, so yeah I think sometimes they do still see me as a little kid at times. My mum always does tell me I need to decide for myself, but I do sometimes am made to feel I have made the wrong decision. I think I do need to perhaps begin to put my foot down.