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dailyjo2003 - While I do agree that for the most part, at age 20, if you don't like it, you can leave, I think that everyone is still entitled to a comfortable and fair home environment.
She does work and study too, and is saving up so that she can move out. She has offered to pay rent but strangely enough her parents refuse to take it, saying that children shouldn't have to pay rent in their own home. Yet they still complain about food and water and electricity! It's absurd, it really is. They've told her that if she moves out then she shouldn't ever come back to them, she's on her own. This is so totally against my view on parenting, it staggers me.
It's this hypocricy and total and utter lack of respect or pride for their son and daughter that really gets to me. They complain about the cost of food and electricity, yet they refuse to accept her offers to pay rent. They refuse to let her act like an adult and drive, yet they refused to let her live her teenage years by going out and having fun.
Tahnks wry1 for your understanding, your advice is great. I haven't had an encounter with either of the parents yet, since that night, and it doesn't look like I will unless they initiate it. They haven't come to my house yet, and every time I've picker her up or dropped her home I've not entered their property.
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