I’m going home to visit my folks in late August, and I’m starting to realize that I really don’t want to. I love swimming in the ocean and being with my parents’ cats, but I honestly don’t want to be around my parents. I know that sounds awful, but I don’t think I can take it right now. My mom has become very neurotic recently, and she dumps her emotional baggage on me a lot and asks me what she should do, why this is happening, why she feels this way… basically, I’m her therapist. And she already has a therapist, but she says the therapist isn’t helpful. And knowing my mom like I do, I can say with damn near 100% certainty that it’s because she doesn’t work constructively with the therapist. She’s not great at putting in the work to get better. I’ve suggested that she go to a dietician as well to deal with her eating disorder. She’s been referred to one and she’s reached out, apparently, so that’s something. Whether she continues to pursue it is another story. As for my dad, I really can’t stand him at this point. He tries to boss me around and tell me how to live my life when a) I’m 38 ****ing years old, b) he knows nothing about anything outside of his field, and c) he hasn’t a ******* inkling of what I want and how I want to live my life, nor has he ever tried to find out. He’s an obnoxious, obtuse, snobby, elitist savant who doesn’t have a ****ing clue and who looks down on anyone who doesn’t have a graduate degree. I’ve told my mom how I feel, and she says one of two things 1) “What can I say…?” and 2) “He DOES love you…” BOTH of which are really wearing thin on me at this point. Whether or not he loves me is not the issue… I KNOW he loves me. Or at least, he loves me as best he can. The issue is that he’s a flaming idiot. Ugh. And I simply don’t know how I’m going to handle being around both of them and their unique brands of crazy for six days without losing my temper. I can’t avoid them when I’m staying in their house. I just worry that things will be said… probably by me, and almost certainly with a lot of cussing.

Also, I can’t believe I’ve posted two threads on here in one night.

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