Rory,
I wish you well and may you have all the luck in the world. When you do break away, just remember that you can’t live your life for someone else. You have to live your life for you. That means you have to be comfortable with yourself in your own skin. You already know what you want to do. Time to act on it and be your own person.

When I left, I remember that I was a little sad for a while. Not because I missed family…I missed what family could have been but never was. So I always remembered one lyric out of a Beatles song “She’s leaving home after living alone for so many years.” It hit home and helped me remember the reasons I left. Eventually you blaze your own trail, hit bumps along the way, but above all you’re living your life for you. You will be a happier person for it.

May the wind be at your back and God bless. Bon voyage!

Phil