different values. i'm not one to go to college directly after high school. i go to a rigorous, small private school where the workload is insane. so... total burnout is expected. a lot of my friends are not of the same scene and a lot of them are not (in or) are at that highschool. i want to take a year off to find out a lot about myself and pursue some things that i'm interested in. my mom's fine with it as long as there's a plan. dad... not so much. i will go to college but if i went directly after high school i'd have a higher chance of dropping out and never going back. let me take the year off and enter college with integrity and motivation. so... there's that issue. but a lot of it has to do with changing values of my own and my unwillingness to let them go. it's everything from what i look for in sig.others to what i think matters politically etc. so different lifestyle and interests. what's cool is that my parents aren't freakazoid, total-fascist kind of people. they're generally pretty great. it's ju

Not to be an angsty cliche, but they don't understand me. My ideas about life, my goals, my religion, my friends, my interests, my ideas and ideals about everything have been slowly slanting farther and farther from theirs, and now that I am old enough to actually put all these ideas and personality into my life and decisions, it's roughing up the relationship. And what's got you so anxious to get out?

Oh yes. Me personally - not yet, I'm still in the house and pretty much in your shoes. But as far as friends and family members go, I've seen it a few times. People tend to polarize - freak that they have to support themselves, or go stir-crazy waiting for freedom. As far as coping, sorry, not much to offer, except to say don't go all teenage rebellion and ruin your relationship beyond repair with your family. It sucks now, and it's tough, but its momentary, just keep that in mind, I guess.

I don't know how old you are, but this is the emotion that tends to build as a person becomes more independent and ready to move out. It is natural. You are developing your own (for a lack of a better word:) lifestyle, and it probably doesn't match perfectly with your family's, or the one your family has put you into in the past. It doesn't make you a terrible person at all. I wouldn't be surprised if all this tension starts to relieve as soon as you move out. At least this is all what my past experiences have pointed to. Just remember, as frustrated as you are, your parents are to. It is hard to be legally and morally responsible for a person who just wants out. Good luck though