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First of all, I'd like to say hej to my newest lj friend, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gissa! She is teaching me what it's like to immigrate to Sweden. Very interesting stuff! Welcome, gissa!
So now the latest thing is I'm going to have to move out of my grandparents's house soon. This just isn't working--my grandparents pretty much raised me, and even at 21, Grandma and to a smaller extent, Grandpa, cannot restrain themselves from controlling me. They don't like that I stay up at night and sleep in in the morning, they can't stand my organized mess, they don't like how I "spoil" my dog, Grandma thinks I dress weird and that because I don't like to cook I'll never get a husband. I'm tired of all the nitpicking, I'm tired of their brainwashing church that I hear about all the time. I'm tired of their radically offensive jokes and comments about liberals, "the orientals", "the gays"--basically anyone with a lifestyle alien to their own. Most of all, I'm tired of being almost constantly bombarded with insults to my integrity, my personality, my competence, my character, and my beliefs.
My plan was to begin giving the grandparents an affordable rent each month once I was able to (somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 to $200/month). I was thinking that that might allow me more freedom to be independent. But now I've got to face the fact, and the fact is that they won't relinquish their control over me until I'm out of the house. So I'm scrapping that plan.
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gissa! She is teaching me what it's like to immigrate to Sweden. Very interesting stuff! Welcome, gissa!So now the latest thing is I'm going to have to move out of my grandparents's house soon. This just isn't working--my grandparents pretty much raised me, and even at 21, Grandma and to a smaller extent, Grandpa, cannot restrain themselves from controlling me. They don't like that I stay up at night and sleep in in the morning, they can't stand my organized mess, they don't like how I "spoil" my dog, Grandma thinks I dress weird and that because I don't like to cook I'll never get a husband. I'm tired of all the nitpicking, I'm tired of their brainwashing church that I hear about all the time. I'm tired of their radically offensive jokes and comments about liberals, "the orientals", "the gays"--basically anyone with a lifestyle alien to their own. Most of all, I'm tired of being almost constantly bombarded with insults to my integrity, my personality, my competence, my character, and my beliefs.
My plan was to begin giving the grandparents an affordable rent each month once I was able to (somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 to $200/month). I was thinking that that might allow me more freedom to be independent. But now I've got to face the fact, and the fact is that they won't relinquish their control over me until I'm out of the house. So I'm scrapping that plan.
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