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[quote=Anonymous]Honestly OP you sound immature. I don't know how old you are. You expect your parents to come and not talk abotu aches or pains, not to be tired after a transatlantic flight, and to be energetic and peppy regardless of how they are feeling. You wnat your dad to choose you over his wife and not to help her with her shoulder injury. You have told her how to treat it and she didn't listen so it sounds like you don't think she should have any support yet you wanted support from them for your own shoulder injury. You don't want your mom to have other friends at home because that takes the focus off of you...

I feel like part of this problem is the lens through which you view your parents. It is kind of like you are a teen annoyed that your parents aren't who you think they should be. You are still focused on how they treated you as a child and your resentment about that. You might find therapy helpful to try and reframe your view of your parents and to see them as adults making choices separate from them as parents.  You may need to reset your expectations and figure out what you want from people you have as parents, rather than the people you wish you had as parents.

Lots of us had imperfect parents who now live their own lives and make different choices than we would.[/quote]

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