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user-inactivated · 3174 days ago · link · · parent · post: How do I deal with my parents' possessive control of me?
Hey man, at least with them paying for your apartment you don't have to live with them. I had a restraining order against my mother for a decade. My dad never tried to get me insurance, or medical help. My mom now feels guilty, and fights to get me the help I need, even when I don't think I deserve it. Have you read the Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Walker? If you want to feel independence take some time off to go WWOOFing. It takes time to heal the weirdness of being an adult, that is still treated like a child. Only 40 years ago in the US, people used to get married, and get jobs at 16.