Having been there myself, it's worse than living alone. Its like living with the devil on you shoulder. In every word they say, somehow no mater waht the words are, it interprets to mean you are stupid, you are selfish, you don't know what you are talking about, you misspend your time etc. The make you afraid of everything, they make you question the simplest things, you even start sentences with , "I'm sorry but..... Nothing is any of your business, every word out of your mouth is corrected or ammended. Every time you disagree wtih them, you are wrong. Period. You become a haggared looking Stepford wife. It is simply less exhausting to agree with them. They clip your wings. A bird manipulated to stay is no pet, it is a slave. That bird can't leave. Living without them is a blast. It is like God saying fly little bird, you have wings and realizing it for the first time.