Hello bonkeroo81: I recall sitting in a group therapy session when I was participating in a partial hospital program quite a few years ago now. I said: "You know how, during awards shows, people sometimes say how they wish their parents could have lived to see them get the award they're receiving? Well I'm glad my parents didn't live to see this... (my being in a partial hospital program following an involuntary psych ward hospitalization.) My parents had high expectations for me, which is kind-of funny because all they ever did was to go to work & then come home & watch TV. As I've gotten older myself, what my parents had wanted from me has become less-&-less important, to the point where it really no longer matters at all. We, each of us, have to live for ourselves.