I still live at home, actually in a basement apartment because my abuse has given me issues surrounding getting a new job (Thats a different issue). Anyway, my mother works for a local high school and therefore has a decent number of activities she has to go to at night for her job. Everytime she does though, I feel abandoned for some reason. I'm 29, I certainly can take care of myself, in fact for 6 months I lived by myself in my own apartment. I guess maybe it goes back to the abuse, my mother was a single (divorced) parent and she went back to school to get her masters degree so that she could get a better job and we could have a better life. She went to classes 2 nights a week (I believe) and left me in the care of my older brother, who used the opportunity to abuse me.

Jason

Jason sorry that you feel this way. I can see why you feel abandoned by what happened in your childhood.

Tom

Looking back on that, the ironic thing is that she was probably going back to school so that she could afford to pay for his college. Which BTW never happened, he ended up not graduating from High School, getting his GED and all of 3 credits from our local community college. I actually have more credits then him (33) yet he's the one with a decent job ($90,000-100,000), wife, 3 kids and I'm the one making $15,000 in the job I had since I was 16, living at home, and going thru this crap.