Yeah, but it is abuse and helicopter parenting. I didn't say its wasn't. I wasn't trying to normalize it, so I apologize if it came across that way but oddly enough it's pretty common within asians and idc if you are asian because I am also one without helicopter parents but know enough peers who do so its not exactly a rarity. When you grow accustomed to these parents and their emphasis in filiality its quite natural to be submissive and not be able to stray from them.
You don't get to shame adults who still go through the abuse of their parents because they'd been raised that way and weren't given support to get out. When your parents are your only family and they'd isolate you from others (as abusers do) it's never the victims fault regardless if they're a child or an adult. And she also was never given the opportunity to realize these things as she has no other close personal relationships aside from her ex bf, which was likely also cause of her parents.

Old enough to leave your parents house