I'm not your friend. I'm just a [girl] who knows how to feel.
So...broke the news to my father that I'm moving out. I figured it wouldn't go down very well. Nothing iwth him ever does. Basically he screamed about how it's a bad idea and that I don't need to move out and that if I start going to school part time I will end up dropping out.
I said I wanted the experience. He said I don't need it. He said it's only going to be harder. I said I'm ready. He's taking everything personally like I'm doing this to spite him when it has nothing to do with him. I tried to reinforce many times that it's obvious I am the most responsible child they have and that I have never asked them for anything but support and they can't even give me that.
I also mentioned how it's funny that my sister dropped out of college when she was 20, quite her job and moved to Florida where she got herself into $5000 of credit debt and how I'm not going to do any of that so why am I making a bad decision and he responded with, "well, Amy wasn't in school anymore. If you weren't in school it would be different." UMMMMMMMMMMMMM, she wasn't in school cause she dropped out! I'm not dropping out, I'm just going to go part time. But apparent'y that doesn't matter.
Then he tried to pull the whole, "well what if 3 months down the road you can't stand your roommates anymore." And I really wish I could've said, "well, I've been living with someone I hate for 19 years and somehow I'm still getting by. So...I think I'll be all right."
And basically to sum it all up, all he could really say was that he doesn't approve of it but I'm obviously going to do what I want and that if I move out he wants me to put my car in my own and get my own insurance policy...so I've been shopping for that.
Isn't it nice to have supportive parents?
I said I wanted the experience. He said I don't need it. He said it's only going to be harder. I said I'm ready. He's taking everything personally like I'm doing this to spite him when it has nothing to do with him. I tried to reinforce many times that it's obvious I am the most responsible child they have and that I have never asked them for anything but support and they can't even give me that.
I also mentioned how it's funny that my sister dropped out of college when she was 20, quite her job and moved to Florida where she got herself into $5000 of credit debt and how I'm not going to do any of that so why am I making a bad decision and he responded with, "well, Amy wasn't in school anymore. If you weren't in school it would be different." UMMMMMMMMMMMMM, she wasn't in school cause she dropped out! I'm not dropping out, I'm just going to go part time. But apparent'y that doesn't matter.
Then he tried to pull the whole, "well what if 3 months down the road you can't stand your roommates anymore." And I really wish I could've said, "well, I've been living with someone I hate for 19 years and somehow I'm still getting by. So...I think I'll be all right."
And basically to sum it all up, all he could really say was that he doesn't approve of it but I'm obviously going to do what I want and that if I move out he wants me to put my car in my own and get my own insurance policy...so I've been shopping for that.
Isn't it nice to have supportive parents?