You don't want to be with someone who is already not getting from you what he needs emotionally.

Minimizing exposure to miserable people is nothing short of a life strategy.

Almost no one can take on an entire future in one step, much less while reeling emotionally.

You don't want someone who can't tell the difference between having a different opinion and dismissing your opinion.

Your parents' views are, by current standards, out there. Getting in their faces about it would be needlessly disrespectful, but there's no reason for you to tiptoe through their delusional little terrarium as if you can't bend even one blade of grass.

There is a difference between your parents' not reporting to you everything they do and keeping secrets from you.

When you fail to see something, that doesn't mean I'm hiding it.