yesterday it said thunder
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Dude. I felt like an idiot two weeks ago when the typhoon was WRECKING Okinawa, and I bailed on a new biz meeting because I was afraid of being thrown from the planet. The typhoon didn't even end up hitting Osaka, and barely even rained. Yesterday's meeting was the make-up for it, and I apologized 4 or 5 times.

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Don't give it back; they're doing what they can to make peace. Giving it back is not accepting their attempt at peace.
Thanks, I'm not.
As for making peace, it's hard to see it that way if it is. It feels too much like the well worn roads of the past where money was used in lieu of introspection and change. (OH BOO HOO, I know.)
I don't know what kind of crap you're going through. You're clearly very smart and a praise junkie of some kind, which I think means rejection issues. At least that's what it means for me. so I can understand the need to distance from your parents to avoid letting them hurt you.
It's been a while since I trotted out Frankl here, but sometimes the only choice we have in a situation is our reaction to the situation. Your parents don't control you. You're independent of them -- or as independent of them as you choose to be.
Whether or not your parents are changing doesn't matter. They may have made a genuine effort, or it may have been a throwaway gesture, but in the end what matters for you is how you react to it. You're the only person who can break the patterns within yourself.
Now if I could only follow this advice for myself more often, I'd be king of the world!

(working on this)