For a long time I have had to put on a front in order to get by. You cannot exactly trade your family for someone better, and without the proper resources, you cannot make it on your own. I tried. (I guess I could try again...)

When I try to talk to friend about how I do not get along with my parents, I hear advice like: "Well, they are your parents, you have to do what they say for now & then you can do your own thing."

Sounds about right, right?

She tortured me. For years. Tortured.








But now I am supposed to act like nothing happened, so that what, I have a place to live?

That doesn't seem fair.

Surely there is another option, right?


I am not in this world to live and to die in the arms that bore me and the arms that destroyed me, am I?