Sounds like you are working on a good plan. Our stories are a little similar with poor parenting and having to raise myself. It would have been nice to have a child hood but I didn't. The up side of that is that I have become a very independent woman and pretty self sufficient. My parent s were not perfect, my life was not perfect but it is my life and I have to make the best of it now. "I" am an adult and I can take better care of me than they did. Maybe in my next life it will be different, but for now this is what I have and I am thankful.