This is not a complex issue as far as I am concerned. Children owe nothing except respect to their parents, if that respect has been earned. Your mother has apparently done nothing to earn your respect or anything else. You on the other hand have every right to live life as you wish to live it, regardless of how your choices affect your mother and as long as your choices are ethical and legal. The fact that your and your mother share some DNA is a matter of biology, not ethics. She and your father gave you life, which you did not ask for; in so doing, they did not automatically earn the right to keep you in virtual slavery, unable to form your own life in the manner that you wish.

Your mother's statement that she would commit suicide if you don't live according to her wishes is nothing but a power grab which you should ignore. In a very literal sense, if she were to choose suicide, it would be her choice and you should not take on the slightest guilt, because you have no responsibility for her choices.

Do I seem harsh? Possibly. But I believe very strongly an individual liberty, and your mother is attempting to keep you in a state that is nothing at all like liberty.

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