Your parents sound very cool, and VERY unlike mine. Sometime, if you're interested, I'll email you with a brief rundown of what my childhood was like - I know compared to lots of people who were molested, didn't get enough to eat, etc, we had it pretty good, but there were still a lot of damages, and it's taken me this long to figure out just how much (can you say denial?) It's been a journey to learn to accept it all as simply being what it was, and learn to forgive them - still working on that one, but almost there. It's a blow to your ego to realize, at a few years into their fifth decade, that you are still being affected by shit from your childhood you should have gotten over a long time ago! *lol* But better to realize it and deal with it, I guess, than just carry it around and do nothing.