Wishing I would win the lottery or something so I could totally cut off all ties with my family whenever I wanted to.
I have wished the same thing many times.
I only need to hold out another two years, I think. Once I'm out of grad school I should be able to jump right into a job. I'll be pretty low-pay for awhile 'till I actually get licensed as a mental health counselor*, but if I know I have the option to tell any and all of my parents where they can stick
their dysnfunctions as far as I'm concerned, it could end up being well worth keeping my thermostat to 50 degrees and living on ramen during that period of time.
*wonder what got me into the field?
It's just that right now, it's my
parents who are paying to verbally shit on me (well, it sure
seems like that's how I'm earning my keep, days like today). Somehow I think I'll like it better when I have clients that didn't fuck to make me (and aren't fucking my progenitors, which tends to make people think that they have parental rights, for some reason.)