Ah try it when you're in your thirties and you have two degrees and have been away and back on several occasions and they *STILL* treat you like you're 12 years old. Parents don't think -- they fall into this bizarre little time warp and refuse to see that you're a grown up at all. The attitude is that if you really were a grownup, you wouldn't be here at all (regardless of the fact that both of them went directly from their parents homes to being married, that everytime I was working full time I never made enough to afford my own apt., that they sabotaged my previous live-in relationship to some extent, etc.).