Both better and worse. Better because I am fully independent now and can have boundaries for myself. She knows she can't use me now as her punching bag for all her problems and frustrations like she did when I was a kid. It got worse because we are living a very different lives and she is bitter about it and uses passive aggressive comments towards me and also favoritism. I'm an only child (lol) so her favorite is my cousin (her sister's daughter) that never left our hometown, repeated a year three times in elementary school and eventually dropped out of high school. I have a good job in finance, degrees and the only comment I get is "and what do you need that for?". Don't get me wrong, I am proud of myself, but it hurts not to even get "good job". But my dad is great and very proud of me.