• CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social
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    5 个月前

    My parents used to say “I can’t wait until you have one just like you. Then you’ll understand how difficult you are to live with.”

    So I got sterilized.

    And they were surprised for some reason.

  • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
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    I’ll never understand how, as a parent, you can give all of your love to a child, raise them to ha e an inner voice of moral authority, and then be petty and vindictive when they are adults. If my child grew to be a petty, self involved adult (>28) I would wonder where in the world I could have been more present and more connected. Possibly not my fault, but if have to check to make sure.

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    Has this been anyone’s experience?

    Most boomer grandparents I know are “chill” (distant) because they weren’t interested in they’re own kids and they sure af not interested in being grandparents

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    It’s a joke that the awful things that the parents put the grandparents through while the parents were children are now being visited on the parents by the grand kids.

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      The grandparents ‘own’ is their children, the kids parents.

      I.E. the kids parents will continue the trend of whatever the grandparents instilled upon them while they were being raised.