Lol. There's a lot of counseling I might benefit from. Doesn't matter if I don't have the money or time.
We could afford a one bedroom, but we'd have to kick out the roommate. I'm not living in that condition again.
My boyfriend has shown me that you can have a perfectly fine standard of living without college, if you actually work hard. His father works for a nuclear plant, he didn't even graduate high school. My boyfriend has enough work experience he could get any job that doesn't absolutely require a college degree. He's even been offered a job that does usually require certification.
My problems are more social. I prefer to work alone, but that is no job in the world. I'll be lucky if I ever find a job that doesn't threaten to give me panic attacks on a daily basis. I'm not hoping for more than that. Doesn't seem like much point digging myself into an even deeper hole to get a degree for a job that I probably won't be able to do anyway.
And you may have missed that my mom's offer of "help" actually ended up trapping us out here. We were going to just stay in WA and hope my boyfriend could get another decent job. If we'd stayed longer his parents would have let us stay with them, if we ended up unable to pay our rent, and we weren't quite at that point yet. My mom offers help, but then she holds it over your head for years, and usually her help just makes things worse. She kept pestering us to move out here, we didn't think it up so we could leech off her. She kept talking like we were going to ruin our lives if we stayed there.

I think the only lesson to learn here is not to listen to my mom.