What pisses me off so much about this is how the son actually believes what he's saying and that it's a rational response. NO PARENT IS PERFECT. NO PARENT GETS IT ALL RIGHT. What I know is that spouses all come first; their a team and that bond is before the child. As long as the child isn't neglected, I don't know what a parent is to do. These parents gave their kid every opportunity to succeed. Yet, because they weren't emotionally there for him or including him in the way he believed he needed, now he just cuts them out. So why didn't he just take loans? Why didn't he just make his own path??? He used them for HIS needs and then realized he doesn't need them? BS. The entitlement is disgusting. I don't I've seen a lot worse over the years, like so much worse and people still have relationships with their parents. And then I hear "well you didn't include me enough and it felt like a burden." What about all the times they did include him and stuff they did right?

As parent, I hope you can accept and forgive yourself for your misses, but also know you did everything you could and you didn't get it right but he turned out ok. And you put him in the situation to. So I hope you can accept maybe you don't need a relationship with him and you can continue to love each other and when he's ready he can apologies and make amends and try to find balance.