Dear Mom & Dad,
It’s time to let me go.
Thank you dad, for helping me with homework and taking me rock hounding every few months when I was little. Thank you mom, for teaching me to cook and be a good mom when the time comes. Thank you for being the best parents I could ask for. I’m sorry if I’m disappointing you. I seem to be doing that a lot lately.
I hate fighting with you guys. It hurts my heart. I love you guys so much and I just want to make you happy, but if you guys don’t want to do the same… I just don’t see how this can work out. So, even though it scares me to bits, I’m moving out as soon as I can come May.
Dad, I’m sorry I’m not going to BYU in the Fall. I know you wanted a perfect son or daughter to do that. Mike and I haven’t exactly followed through on that… haha… But you still have Chris. Maybe he’ll surprise you. To be honest, I don’t even care about college right now. I feel like you just don’t support what I want to do for the rest of my life… you laugh about it like it’s some sort of joke. That kills me. I want to make you happy and everything… but… I want other things more.
Mom, I’m sorry I don’t want to go to church with the family with you anymore. I hate it when you talk to me like I’m going and then when I remind you I’m not, you get so angry. I don’t want to disappoint you, but I’ve found something that’s so much more beneficial for me. I wish you would get it through your head. Gosh, when I saw your face light up at the sight of the letter from Elder Ashby, it broke my heart. I don’t want your life.
Why don’t you believe in me?