Just felt like replying this because I had an argument with my parents this morning too, one of those "I don't want to live here if I could leave" situations for several months already - but mine are over matters like health concerns (my dad smokes a lot, tons of secondhand and thirdhand smoke at home), parenting methods (they do the traditional way, always trying to overwrite me because they think I'm too young, also feeding my son with bad thoughts and opinions too).
They're always trying to make decisions for my son, disregarding the fact that I'm his mother. Always thinking that I don't know anything, I'm too young to know anything, I'm not thinking about things when I make decisions. Always trying to overwrite my decisions and things I already planned, rules I laid out. Always spending money on stupid unnecessary things for my son while I'm here struggling to manage our expenses. Always doing stupid things to damage their health, not taking care of themselves properly, thinking that renting the rooms out will pay for all our expenses etc. In the end, everything will become a burden to me - but every time they nag at me, I can't retailiate or talk back. They always say that it's hard to talk to me, saying that I always throw my temper - well they aren't even respecting me at all. I wanna move out so, so badly but I'm not earning enough to do so right now - and if I really do, I will break all ties with them or even remove their authorization to be picking my son up from school since they're so toxic to him physically, mentally and even for my son's health too. So tired of trying to make things work when all they do is just scold me for the things that they don't know, don't understand or don't think.
I think such situations happens a lot, but the thing is - we just can't do anything much about it because of our circumstances. For me, I'm only earning $1000/month now and $370 already goes to our insurance and savings plan. I don't have the spare cash to be renting somewhere for me and my son, and it's not really something I want to do because I'm an only child so my parents are still my responsibility.
I guess what helps me is just to rant to others, take some time to go out of the house (or away from them) and just clear my mind off and then come back again. I have my ways of doing things and I'm a really stubborn person even though my actions and thinking are hard for most to understand - my parents and I usually flare up into an argument, I get agitated when that happens, they blame me for being hard to talk to, we just ignore each other until we need to talk again (which is like within the next few hours).
I don't have any concrete advice, but I do hope things would get better!
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