Over the years I've had a pretty rocky relationship with my parents, often hidden from public view. These feelings often leave me feeling angry and hurt, though I have to at same time balance it with all the good things they've helped me out with over the years.

I realize in many ways that it is my own fault, staying so many years with them after becoming a young adult. My frustrations with my parents often run deep, despite my deep seated loyalty with them throughout the years.

I feel as though my parents are often trying to block my future. Sometimes they mock myself and my values, as if they are foreign to them. Yet, in many ways I tend to agree with many of their same ideals even if they mean something different to my generation.

I'm far younger and idealistic then they are these days, and I deserve not have my hopes and feelings constantly short down by their egos. I often cope to find sufficient ego defenses to do with their constant attacks on myself.

I realize that it's time for me to move on. I am my own individual, and I need to find ways to work more independently of my parents and develop my own world. This fall when I go back to college I will avoid talking to my parents and try to solve as many problems myself. Until then my life in politics seems to keep a reasonable distance between them my own ego.