I'm planning to move to Tokyo in the middle of this year and have started to drastically cull my things. I made my son come home to help me declutter my apartment. I even paid for him to take the bullet train. Today is a national holiday in Japan, so we're still in the process of decluttering. My son is a night owl, while I'm a morning person. We feel as though the other is slacking off because our activity hours are totally opposite.

He had mentioned that he wanted to hang out with his friends for a day during his stay, which wasn't a problem, but he argued that I was slacking off and not giving him the direction he needed, so he had the right to hang out with them for one more day. His insistence made me lose it, and I started yelling at him and demanding that he pay back half the cost of the train. That turned into a blowout.

We eventually agreed that I would give him direction from bed and made up, but that screaming match took everything out of me.