i have to say that im 30 right now, and i left my home when i was 18, and i was very happy but my situation is different, i had a mother who lived with my dad but they were divorced, because i fell in love and had a boyfriend, they sent me to a correctional facility and it was so traumatic, i still have the effects of it (nightmares etc.) i could not stand to be anywhere around my family. my brothers tried to ruin my boyfriend, and my mother stuck by them. my father didnt get very involved. luckily we had a church we went to, where the preist stood me and my boyfriend, who is now my husband, he stuck by me since i was 15 and we are very happy.