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Older teen needs help balancing parental relationship at home

Q: Is it normal to be frustrated/angry with your parents as a young adult? And what do you do about it  I’m 18 and I’m about to graduate highschool but I am just butting heads with my parents really badly, especially my mom. I mean I do still live at home, I’m still in school. I am homeschooled and don’t go many places, bc I don’t have my drivers license yet, so I see a lot of her and she just really gets on my nerves. She tends to be a bit emotionally immature and a bit controlling. I obviously have mental work to do as well.. no one is perfect. I’ve seen some people say it’s normal and happens as you get older but I just need advice on what to do about it. I just don’t know how to live with her and manage this, at this weird age where I’m an adult but also not an adult at the same time. I need advice to help reason with her to let me have more freedom to be an adult. It feels suffocating and kind of can't wait to move out. A: It is good you are thinking through this and wanting t...