Your Relationship with your Parents

My parents did well to raise me by making me learn a lot about life on my own. If I asked them a question, most of the time they would make me try and figure it out myself. They never helped me with homework once, always saying that the answers are in my schoolbooks and, hopefully, somewhere in my brain. It's made me independent, but I still do ask them for help whenever I get into a jam I can't fix.

My relationship with them isn't very loving. We don't say things like I love you and other terms of affection. Most of the time we just joke around and end up being sarcastic about any given subject. My father and I like to wax politics about world events, but with me being a libertarian and my father leaning more towards being democratic, it's hard to find a middle ground in those debates. My mother and I just exchange jokes and share the same ire for modern television shows. I suppose my parents are just plain vanilla average, if not a little more humorous than that.

Jam it back in, in the dark.