My daughter, too, has come around to a great extent from the bad ole days (well, the bad ole days are not that "ole", actually -- she has been clean three months). She wrote me a letter not long ago taking responsibility for having fought us and saying she now realizes how we were trying to do the right thing by her. At the time she thought, like your son, that we were control freaks whose only goal in life was to make her life h-e-double hockey sticks.