Mom Secretly Reads Daughter’s Private Journals, Says It's Her 'Right'

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A woman visited her family home intending to help clean out the attic

While moving boxes, she discovered her old journals tucked away in a corner

When inspecting them, she was shocked not only by what she found inside them, but also by who had been reading them

Discovering that someone has read your private thoughts can be deeply shocking, especially when that someone is your parent.

One Reddit user recounted how a simple trip to her childhood home turned into an emotional ordeal after she found her old journals had been secretly read and annotated.

While cleaning out the attic and moving boxes, the woman found “a small stack of my old notebooks. I kept journals from ages 13 to 22, filled with everything… crushes, trauma, fights, secrets I never told anyone.”

To her ho