Dear Daniel, thank you so much for sharing your valuable experiences! Like many others here, i also found a lot of things i could relate to in your story. What an intriguing and interesting journey this Life is! Though i have to say that there is something that is deeply bothering me in your approach. The way you manifest about breaking up with your parents almost gives me the feeling that you will never obtain the goal of your journey, your final peace of mind, until you turn back to actually face your past instead of trying to seemingly block your parents of your life. I say seemingly because you seem to be processing them a lot and even working on a book about them, so this is clearly THE topic on the agenda of your inner journey at this stage. You say: * * * It’s about the subject of breaking up with one’s parents. (...) I think it will be groundbreaking, because I don’t know any other books that address this subject in remotely as much emotional depth and intensity. * * * Does \"emotional depth and intensity\" here mean the same as bitterness about your past? For me these strong emotions are a sign that you still identify yourself strongly with your feelings of bitterness and your role as a victim. As long as you do that you will not be free. I have always understood that the way to Enlightenment goes through Compassion, Love and Forgiveness. How about trying something different, a true journey inwards with the aim of letting go of the past and giving up the role of a victim and the hatred and bitterness towards your parents? Would it be possible to find a way to accept and live with the past, to cherish all the good things that your parents have given you, and even the seemingly not-so-good things they gave you at least lead you to an interesting journey and career path so in my opinion that is something to be sincerely grateful, too. I am saying all this (maybe with a slightly provocative tone) because for years and years i was also on a constant inner battle against my parents. For my own well-being i am extremely happy to have let it go, to have been able to accept the past, to forgive them their lack of perfection and to move on. It´s still not always easy with my parents but a lot easier than before. Keeping my parents in my life, facing them with all their imperfections, provides still valuable lessons for my inner journey and forces me to handle my own traumas, a process that i am grateful for. I do not want to escape the problems but to face them, to learn and to develop. I want to keep my parents at a certain distance (i have chosen to live far away) but still have good terms with them WHILE they are still alive. There will be a day when it´s too late to talk to them. Perhaps that is the way Mother Nature has designed it, a natural break-up is inevitable anyways when our parents will die sooner or later. All the best for you, Daniel!! * * * Love and Light * * * Heli