Re: Straightforward question...straight from the heart!
They should stop interfering by the time you go off to college.
In actuality, they stop interfering when you're financially holding your own. As long as they are able to keep giving you money, they get to control quite a bit. Unfortunately. Because once you're financially stable, you dont need to listen to them, and they know that. So they typically back off...plus, they dont want to lose a cash cow. They have to retire some day.
Well maybe dads work more like that. I am convinced my mother will never stop lecturing me.