Like ok, I could maybe move out if I wanted to be constantly completely broke and living off spaghettios and ramen and killing myself in the process because I need a specific diet to not get diabetes. Likewise, I could let my mother live alone with her bad knee and her 12 hour days and her paycheck that doesn’t really cover all her expenses like car insurance. It’s all she can do right now to pay her half of the property taxes every year, but whatever, right? It’s totally ok if I let her lose her house because of some stupid societal expectation that I should move out. Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, it’s not like I’ve helped pay for a new oven, two new air conditioners, a new water heater, and assorted other expenses over the past few years. It’s not like I’ve let her borrow my car when she needs it, or arranged the only family vacation we’ve ever gotten to go on because I had a little extra money for some fun. I haven’t bought her Ren Faire tickets so that we could go together or paid for breakfast out every other weekend for the past two years. Oh yeah. I have, because she couldn’t. But I’m totally a leech for living there and not finding a shitty apartment to live in. Yeah.