Your Relationship with your Parents

I have a problem with my parents. My Dad works 7 days a week so I don't see him much. The only time I do is when he fetches me to camp on Sunday nights. Sometimes he comes back from work early and we get to eat dinner together.

When I talk with Mom, I feel that she seldom really listens. I get the impression that she doesn't really care about me. Sure, she gives me regular text messages and tries to talk to me after work but I only get the feeling that she's doing it because she's obliged to do so. Normally when we talk after she comes back from work, both of us are tired and we end up quarreling. Even when we go out on her off day she can't seem to understand what I'm talking about. Just the other day we went out to a Yamaha showroom to look at Digital Pianos. I showed her a particular piece which I had been considering buying for about a month and told her that I need the Digital Keyboard because I have to practise piano from Monday to Friday (when I'm not home) and that the old piano I have at home is terribly out of tune and rather beyond repair. I told her that I was going to pay for it with my own money but she gave a myriad of reasons as to why I should not buy it, all of which I found really unreasonably and grossly unfair to me.

Somehow I just don't feel that either of us can get along.

Jam it back in, in the dark.