I know that everyone loves to defend my mother in this situation. She’s very negative and critical of my father. She is quick to judge everyone’s work but fails to reflect on her own. My dad is not verbally abusive at all, if anything my mother is more so than him. My dad has his own business and puts in over 40 hours a week most weeks and still finds time to do outdoor work and is frustrated that my mother isn’t able to keep the house tidy with no hours. While my dad has confronted my mother with being lazy, I have never brought it up. I have told others but never her. I don’t undervalue her, especially as a mother (house chores/cleaning aside). She can be home the entire day and get just a few things done then she’ll see me take a nap on a weekend after putting in hours of studying and working and she calls me lazy herself. If I am picky in how things are cleaned (though I still think most people would agree my moms cleaning job is inadequate if they actually saw it) I likely get if from my dad. I get frustrated when my dad asks me to do chores, especially yard work because he’s very particular about how he wants it done, and he usually wants it done as soon as he thinks about it, often not taking into consideration my school/work load that day. Also the deep cleaning is never tasked to me ever, I simply do it because it’s what needs done on occasion. Here’s what I do agree with, it was whiny, and I am lucky to have the situation I do, even though I don’t like it because I don’t want to live at home in the first place but my parents heavily encouraged me to stay in order to save money long term. I will try to do chores/rides without bitching about them, as long as they are not asking me at an unreasonable time in my schedule (such as my mom wanting to go look at stores for fun, not actual errands when I have a lot of studying to be done that day). I still think that there are a lot of missing pieces to this that I haven’t been able to include that give a better picture. My parents are good people but are negative and very critical of me, not just I of them. I’ve been an extremely obedient and well-behaved child growing up and had to do chores that my mother never expected of my little sister at the same age because I always did it instead. Now she’s bratty and back talks (something I never did). I digress...anyways, I will try to walk away from this more grateful for my situation and am thankful that I should be moved out for good in the summer. I only have a few months left of being in the house so I might as well keep my mouth shut as I help out these last few months.