Parental disapproval is a time-honored tradition, but this twenty-four-year-old woman could write the manual on how to weaponize guilt and control. Her parents have turned her relationship status into a full-scale family crisis, all because her ex-boyfriend had the audacity to bring a child into the mix. While she and her ex spent a year being sabotaged by unsolicited opinions and silent treatments, the real romance has been between her parents and their need to micromanage her life. Every milestone, every visit, every conversation became a battleground, with her parents storming off or locking themselves away like teenagers denied a phone upgrade.