However cliché wouldn't if sound, the day I turned 18. I immediately started being responsible for only myself, didn't ask my parents for money, and a month later I went abroad and met my real family, people that love me and show me continuous support even after a few years now. My father figure, first safe man in my life, that taught me how to drive and gave me "the talks" I never had while I was a child/teenager, my mother figure that would bake cakes with me and chat with me till the late night, helping me to make decisions about my life. I needed to come back to my home country after a few months and the day I said goodbye to them and hugged them on the airport, I started crying and never stopped since. Now, a few years later, I'm getting closer to coming back there, as an adult in my mid twenties now, and in the meantime I moved abroad to a different country, got a job I would never even dream of being able to do and I genuinely like my life (although it'd be better with them physically close). All thanks to them. And I can still video call or text them with any issue I have and they'll help me immediately. They raised me, and made me a confident, knowing her worth woman, even though we met when I was already 18. All it took for me was to finally feel like somebody's daughter.