I don't know... maybe.... but I can understand the situation from a couple of angles because of my own experience.

Because my mom died it was just me and my dad. And when I was 17 and just out of high school, I was worried to leave my dad so I could go to university, which I wanted to go out of state but I never even tried. I worried because he had really bad untreated depression, and I was afraid of what he might do because he also behaved as if my leaving was abandoning him.
But, my dad used to guilt me also, make me feel like I would fail. But I know it's because he didn't want me to "abandon" him.

It was just by chance that our insurance agent died, and his widow started going to our church. My dad had insurance with them since before I was born. So, because my dad found a friend and eventually she became my step-mother. I was able to move on with my own life but not in the healthiest ways. And, I never did go to university, just community college and then trade school.

There's a lot of variables in these situations.