Thanks all for the replies. I just wanted to mention that my father is very invested in us. He thinks he hasn't lived his life for us to live (although no one forced him to do that or even to bring us to this life and thus to give up his own life for his children). My older brother got married against his will and my father was so mad and frustrated that I was afraid he would get a heart attack, because when he talked about the topic his face was becoming black and blue from the anger.

Once I was strict with him because he keeps texting and calling me, which annoys me a lot, and he began to cry, and I've never seen him crying (except in some funerals). As I said, my father is very invested in us (I wish he wasn't because now he has expectations from us) and thinks we are ungrateful and abandoning him, which isn't true, but he is afraid of that, I guess. I just don't want to cause him a heart attack or a paralyzing stroke by cutting him off. I feel guilty already, but if he died or something happened to him because of me, I wouldn't forgive myself.

All my siblings are good children and nice and polite, and all people know that about them, but the way my parents deal with us make us react negatively to them. The atmosphere between us is not positive at all. I am sure they would be more satisfied if they gave us some room and freedom to be ourselves. But to no avail. I wonder if they would ever realize this!!