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n=1 so take it as just that, but I left my dad because we were broke. I suspected a gambling habit after he got evicted from the tiny apartment we grew up in, in the years after my mom passed away and her medical expenses had wiped us clean (cancer).

One day I just stopped returning his phone calls. I was about to fail out of college, broke myself, and couldn't take another phone call from him asking for money.

Anyway, I can imagine someone staying in the picture with their difficult parents if there's an inheritance involved.

In my case, I dipped in large part because of poverty.