Hi. I'm eighteen years old and go to college, but live with my parents. I love my dad, except for the fact that he's a bit self important when it comes to my college life. If I have a 93% in a class, he will give me lectures on how to boost it up ( I mean, really?) I guess he knows I'm getting older and don't need him as much, so giving me unwanted advice is what he does to still feel he is involved. I can deal with that. However, he criticizes my appearance which I think is highly inappropriate. I somewhat understand when I was fourteen and wanted to wear Iron Maiden shirts to a formal gathering, but now I'm eighteen, dress elegantly, and am everything that is feminine. However, I have a pixie cut. My boyfriend loves it and so does everyone else, except for him and my mom. He constantly gives me back-handed compliments about when my hair looked "nice," and now that my hair is growing out ( a temporary thing for the colder weather), he has said, "Yeahhhh...you shouldn't go back to that short hair style." I'm really upset because I like the way I look. I feel as though he (and my mom) are so stuck in their ways that they can't get past their dislike of short hair to actually look at me in it, to SEE me, to see how happy and glowing I am with it! It'd would still be mean if my hair looked bad, but what gets to me is that it actually looks good! It really opens up my face and makes me feel happy and beautiful. Isn't that how a parent should want their daughter to feel? What do I do? It's like he's going out of his way to give me his two cents, and this time in particular I feel it's extremely inappropriate.