Relationships with parents is one the strangest type of relationships. At what point do they stop telling you what you should and shouldn't do? I don't think it ever ends and you wind up never getting past certain things for years and years and the relationship becomes stagnant. And they act like the outside World doesn't exist and shouldn't have an effect on you. When you tell them about something in the real World that's effected you in some monumental or superficial way they seem startled and don't know how to react. It's odd.