Sucks that others had the same type of person in their lives. I mean, I am an adult and I was never dependent on her. I can't imagine how it would be to have a similar person as a parent! OK, my parents acted crazy a lot and weren't meant to be parents, but they never acted this bad. And then I know some people had parents even worse. Ugh. How can people be mean to kids even? Mine weren't mean, they were just exhausted.