My dad favours my little sister.
I also see my mum lie to my Nonno (Grandpa) so then she got me in the habbit of lieing to her about stuff. =S Im weird lol
But they'd love to have the status implied by you not needing to request loans, grants etc., so they asked you not to do that. Annoying, impractical, but I guess for the time being, what they want, they get.
And yes, they can get very annoying. My mum calls herself a 'very private person' and yet, when I still lived at home, she kept on 'accidentally' opening my wage slip envelopes.
I, for one, know full well we could afford to pay for me to go to Harvard (provided I can get the scores :frustrated:). Parentals won't allow it. Why? They don't want me to move out