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Family & Aging: what age did you start to feel the pressure of time?
Posted on 7/7/18 at 8:43 pm
Posted on 7/7/18 at 8:43 pm
Recently, I’ve started to think more about the future and for the first time I’m realizing that my parents are getting old. I’m thinking more about how to spend time with them and how to make the most of it.
Has this happened to you? About what age? What did you do to keep it from making you feel a bit down? Time is a relentless SOB...
Has this happened to you? About what age? What did you do to keep it from making you feel a bit down? Time is a relentless SOB...
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Posted on 7/7/18 at 8:44 pm to TFS4E
When kids started popping out.
Eta - Drink
Eta - Drink
This post was edited on 7/7/18 at 8:45 pm
Posted on 7/7/18 at 8:45 pm to TFS4E
Do you have kids?
Posted on 7/7/18 at 8:46 pm to AUCE05
Not yet
Posted on 7/7/18 at 8:47 pm to TFS4E
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This post was edited on 7/7/18 at 8:49 pm
Posted on 7/7/18 at 8:49 pm to TFS4E
No kids here, look very young, never married, 37. I will always think of my parents at the age I am now. They are both on the cusp of 60, which is how I think of my grandparents, who are now in their mid-80's. But I also have the teenage mindset of immortality 
Posted on 7/7/18 at 8:51 pm to liz18lsu
How young you look?
Posted on 7/7/18 at 8:52 pm to TFS4E
Just started this year after I turned 40. Starting to worry about the life my family can have after I pass away.
Posted on 7/7/18 at 8:52 pm to liz18lsu
Your life sounds sad
Posted on 7/7/18 at 8:56 pm to TFS4E
Thats what you are feeling. Your DNA is talking. Everyone in your family line has done their job. Now its your turn. Your parents will drop a level or two when you start caring for children.
Posted on 7/7/18 at 8:56 pm to Tiger1242
Oh contraire mon frere. I have an absolutely awesome life.
Posted on 7/7/18 at 8:57 pm to liz18lsu
I had a similar mindset. Lost grandparents recently and then my parents sent me a picture from their “date” and it hit me like a ton of bricks. For the first time ever, they looked old to me. Honestly, scared the shite out of me.
This post was edited on 7/7/18 at 8:58 pm
Posted on 7/7/18 at 9:00 pm to TFS4E
I'm not scared. I have been a pallbearer several times, yet never experienced death for anyone truly close. Maybe I have lived a semi-charmed kinda life. Unscathed.
ETA - I gifted my parents their "date" pic at Pat'O's...
ETA - I gifted my parents their "date" pic at Pat'O's...
This post was edited on 7/7/18 at 9:01 pm
Posted on 7/7/18 at 9:01 pm to TFS4E
3 of my 4 grandparents are dead. My parents are almost 70 now and my mom has some health issues. They are the main reason we've stayed in LA.
Posted on 7/7/18 at 9:02 pm to TFS4E
I took a class on parenting years ago and one thing I recall is people go through stages of life.
There were 5 or 6 stages your children go through in respect to you, the parent.
More or less, about the third one occurs at ages 10-15 or so where the kids admire and will tolerate the parents. The next stage, is the rebellious stage, where the adolescent is becoming an adult and feels they know everything and thusly will more or less reject the parents.
It isn't until mid 20's when the person will begin to respect the parents and appreciate what has been done for them.
There were 5 or 6 stages your children go through in respect to you, the parent.
More or less, about the third one occurs at ages 10-15 or so where the kids admire and will tolerate the parents. The next stage, is the rebellious stage, where the adolescent is becoming an adult and feels they know everything and thusly will more or less reject the parents.
It isn't until mid 20's when the person will begin to respect the parents and appreciate what has been done for them.
Posted on 7/7/18 at 9:04 pm to liz18lsu
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No kids here, look very young, never married, 37.
Same here. Enjoy the freedom.
I have friends who did the married w/kids route and are jealous that I can basically jet off to Europe whenever I like.
Most of them argue that they'll have kids to take care of them when they're older. The reality is that maybe half or fewer will actually do it, and mostly out of a sense of obligation.
Posted on 7/7/18 at 9:04 pm to TFS4E
I'm 51 and I lost my dad(83) in May. He had been on home Hospice for two years( cancer) He was a veteran (Korea) a great dad, my best friend and my hero. It was the worst day of my life but I was blessed with a great father. There is nothing that can compare you for when they close those doors to the funeral home to let the family say your final goodbyes. When I was crying over his coffin it felt like my soul was coming out of me. Tell your parents how much you love them often.. I did
Posted on 7/7/18 at 9:04 pm to TFS4E
Quit thinking about it
Posted on 7/7/18 at 9:06 pm to TFS4E
When the last family member of your parents' generation is gone you will be faced with the reality that you are now the senior group. You are the ones your kids and grandkids look up to for guidance. It is a very sobering reality. The day you realize your mother has terminal cancer or your father's Alzheimers has progressed to the point where he no longer knows you is the hardest day of your life. Be strong and battle through it, as hard as it seems, you will carry on. Enjoy them while you can for someday you will be them. Life is for living.
Posted on 7/7/18 at 9:07 pm to TFS4E
When I was 15 and I wasn’t a hit with the ladies
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