How can I get my older sisters to leave me alone and let me have my privacy and space? They are constantly humiliating me and getting away with it and my parents are refusing to discipline them, even though they are 26 and 25.

Ever since I was little and moved into a house, I have always wanted my own space. But now, when it comes to having time to myself, it is hard to ignore my sisters while I'm doing my own things and I really think that it is rude when they bother me in the middle of something (they did this while I played bingo) or when I'm getting ready to go to bed.

One night when I was getting ready to go to bed, my oldest sister, age 26, texts me to come downstairs to deal with my niece not eating and I did not like it at all. She wanted to see if my niece would listen to me but she would only eat a little. I had to sit downstairs with my sister and niece for like 30 minutes. I was very tired and needed to go to bed. After 30 minutes, I finally got to bed and ignored everything. But 19 minutes later, I got another rude awakening by the same sister when she tried to text and then call me. I answered her call and told her to leave me alone, it is rude to call when someone is asleep at night. I have been living under European standards and I never answer after 9pm. I really would like her to stop texting and calling me after 9pm. I have tried talking to her about it and she seems to be ignoring the standards I have lived by.

My 2nd older sister, aged 25, is my biggest pet peeve of all time. She has always been rude when she belches, passes gas, slaps her belly, calls names, taking unwanted photos, and has bad vocabulary. When I am cooking or eating at the dinner table with her, she thinks that it is okay to belch and pass gas at the table and that no one could do anything about it. My mom had told her the same thing but she would not listen. When I tried to tell her myself to stop doing all that rude stuff, I want her ti understand that it is inappropriate to belch and pass gas without using her manners. The next rude thing she did was taking a photo and text it to my dad without ever asking for permission. I have told her many times that it was rude to take photos (especially with flash) without permission. When dad asked me to look at the picture he got in the text, I immediately deleted the text and explained to him that my room was off limits and that their cameras are not allowed. I am planning on asking her to politely to delete the unwanted photos and leave me and my room alone.

How can I get them to understand that my room is off limits and that I needed privacy and space to myself?

I'm sorry, but I just don't find your problems any different from those we all go through with siblings. What I do find strange, however, is family who text and call each other within the house. Even so, why don't you turn your phone off? No one forced you to go downstairs when you were going to bed. Put a DO NOT DISTURB sign on your door, and if anyone enters, pretend they aren't there and don't even exist. Eventually they will give up.

I have a sister who behaves like that too. I mean, she was rude and all. It got me really mad, so I got even with her. I did whatever she did to me (take pics and etc) and I do it to her. Well, things got ugly and we had a huge fight after that. But at least she stopped her nonsense after that fight. Maybe she finally understood how it felt like?

Your sisters are 26 & 25. I'm sure they would understand situations way better than my sister. So if I were you, I would ignore them and their phone calls. Just give them the cold shoulder. They'll get bored and stop

Mute or turn your phone off after 9 ? Then they can't text or call you.

How old are you ? Old enough to move out and get your own place ?

So they called about niece ? You say no an ignore them

So these are two adult women and can I presume you're an adult as well? How about moving out? Our families do get annoying after a certain age, so we move on and live our lives independent of them. Your sisters are not going to get less annoying and you are not going to get less annoyed, so you need physical separation from them.

Once you have your own home you will find that you only have to take them in small doses and it will be easier to keep the peace because you will know that at the end of the gross meal or whatever, you can escape back to your own place.

I have no idea what European standards are - sounds like "normal courtesy" that if someone says, "I'm going to bed" that the other family members leave them to do so in peace.