[timarie]

And timarie! WOW!!! Sounds like your mom's a lot like mine. It's totally ridiculous.

And I hear ya about making your parents shit themselves!! If I ever get the chance to do that to mine I will!

Who knows, maybe some time with zero contact will make them grow up a little?

That's actually... kinda how it works! Set up a situation in which you CAN'T talk to them, so that they cannot cry about you ignoring them. Something like, living in the rural countryside of Kenya, or something like that. They won't be mad at you for it. I mean, I had no internet, no phone. And pick a good reason to go, so that they will be some-what supportive! haha I mean, I did those things not to shed my parents off my back, but it was a pleasantly unexpected result!