One more final to go and the semester will be over for me. I can’t believe it went by so fast. I am going to miss my writing class. I’m not ready to graduate, yet I am ready at the same time. I want it to work out to where I don’t have to have the help of my parents financially anymore. My brother will be going to college next year while I am in grad school (if I get in). I am ready to be an adult and take care of myself but I am not sure how to take the first step in that direction. I’m on my mom’s cell phone plan, she has access to all my accounts, and she has all my bills sent to her to be taken care of. This is a point in my life where I am scared but excited too. I want to take the step but how do I do it? I feel bad because I almost dread going home for Christmas and even for the weekends that I visit. Things with my mom are stressed and I don’t want to fight with her. I also want my boyfriend to be welcome in the house and I want to be able to talk to him or about him with no one getting angry at me. I don’t know what to do. I can’t imagine my wedding without my mom there. Mom and the rest of my family of course. She says she probably wouldn’t come if I married my boyfriend. (We haven’t talked about marriage but that’s what she said and it still hurts).