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re: What is your relationship like w your parents now that you’re grown
Posted on 6/9/19 at 7:50 am to 3morereps
Posted on 6/9/19 at 7:50 am to 3morereps
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I used to be really close w my dad but lately we barely talk. It feels bad
Dude, go hang out with your dad. Find something y’all like to do together or talk about. Eating, drinkin, fishing, hunting, sports, politics, movies, whatever. Just checking repair that relationship. You’ll regret it if you dont
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Posted on 6/9/19 at 7:56 am to 3morereps
My mom and dad divorced when I was 13. I was the youngest of 4 and by the time I was 16 it was only my mom and I at home. We became very close, actually a combination of mother/son, but also, friends who did everything together including vacation and occasionally eating out. I didn’t get married until I was 27 and I never felt the need to move out and I helped her pay the bills while I worked my way through college and continued as I became a working adult after graduation. Mom passed last April and it has been more emotional for me, especially the last few months, than it was last year. We had to make the decision to remove her from life support because she was not going to recover. I can’t get the look of her taking her last breaths out of my head when I think of her. I keep waiting to remember all the good times but I can only see her the way she was at the end. Hopefully, as time passes I’ll be able to erase that from my memory.
Dad and I have always had a great relationship as well...I have been a lucky man because they both loved their kids immensely!
Dad and I have always had a great relationship as well...I have been a lucky man because they both loved their kids immensely!
Posted on 6/9/19 at 7:58 am to 3morereps
Mine are gone. Got along great with both of them. Dad died in 83 and my mom in 98.
Wish they were still here. They'd love my daughter.
Wish they were still here. They'd love my daughter.
Posted on 6/9/19 at 8:05 am to 3morereps
My father is hands down one of my closest friends, we enjoy many of the same things and each others company. But most importantly he is one person that I can go to if I need help with anything. He will still chew me a new one if I'm an idiot.
These are the qualities that make the best parents.
As for my mother, she holds an incomparable amount of love for the entire family. She seems to connect better with my brother as they have many similarities. She has helped me with every endeavor I took on growing up.
I know for a certainty that I will hold the same feelings for them for the rest of time.
These are the qualities that make the best parents.
As for my mother, she holds an incomparable amount of love for the entire family. She seems to connect better with my brother as they have many similarities. She has helped me with every endeavor I took on growing up.
I know for a certainty that I will hold the same feelings for them for the rest of time.
Posted on 6/9/19 at 8:21 am to 3morereps
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used to be really close w my dad but lately we barely talk. It feels bad
So pick up the phone and call him.
I was closer to my mom in HS, grew closer to my dad in college. Now that I’ve got a family I lean on/talk to my dad a lot more but I’m still close to both and try to talk to them multiple times a week
Posted on 6/9/19 at 8:29 am to 3morereps
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I used to be really close w my dad but lately we barely talk. It feels bad
I’m in the same spot. My dad and I were really close but he’s recently turned into a crabby old bastard who has gone from being a good husband to treating everyone, including my mom like shite.
Posted on 6/9/19 at 8:34 am to Upperdecker
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Dude, go hang out with your dad. Find something y’all like to do together or talk about. Eating, drinkin, fishing, hunting, sports, politics, movies, whatever. Just checking repair that relationship. You’ll regret it if you dont
Fricking this x1000. Found out a few weeks ago dad has stage 4 esophageal cancer that’s spread and watching it quickly consume his body. Now he can barely speak and can’t eat solid foods. We just get in the truck and drive around or mess around in his garden. It’s funny I’ve been following that man so long in the woods that few words are needed to communicate.
Posted on 6/9/19 at 8:40 am to 3morereps
Best friends with my dad, but he had a stroke at 53 about 6 months ago. He survived and is mobile, but his right arm and hand aren’t paralyzed, but also aren’t functional, and he also lost his ability to speak well... He has the type of aphasia where he can repeat about anything I say, but can’t really carry on a conversation. Just kind of babbles when it’s more than a 3 or 4 word sentence. He just struggles to get the right words out. We just work through it and you kind of have to change the way you phrase things to help keep the conversation somewhat fluid. I mean, it’s not bad when it’s just our family. We all have done well with it, after we got past the initial shock. It’s brought me closer to my mom and brother. We already had great relationships, but dad has been my best friend for 15 years. He taught me how to farm, be a husband, just how to live your life and do the right things. I know we’re lucky to still have him. Doctor said he should have died, I just miss talking to him every day about nothing, just calling and chatting about what we’ve been up to that day, what’s on tv, deer hunting, crops, etc.
Posted on 6/9/19 at 11:24 am to 3morereps
most dads are assholes 70% of the time and buddies just 30%
most moms are the peace makers and excuse makers for dads over reactions
as we get older we see through all that and realize they are just like us and just trying to stop us from making the same dumb decisions and mistakes they made and so we just make different ones instead
if you cant get along with the two people who put up with all your BS over the years, it says more about you then it does about them
most moms are the peace makers and excuse makers for dads over reactions
as we get older we see through all that and realize they are just like us and just trying to stop us from making the same dumb decisions and mistakes they made and so we just make different ones instead
if you cant get along with the two people who put up with all your BS over the years, it says more about you then it does about them
Posted on 6/9/19 at 11:30 am to 3morereps
I'm very close with my mom. Love her to death. Now that I'm older, it's gotten better with my dad but we'll never be close.
Posted on 6/9/19 at 11:34 am to MBclass83
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Honestly, I've never had a real conversation with my dad. He always lectured, corrected, judged, and criticized me
That's exactly how my father was to me. I dont care much now, but it's brutal when you're growing up.
Posted on 6/9/19 at 11:35 am to fallguy_1978
“Me and my dad decided we needed to check each other's knuckles once.
I knocked him on the ground first and pulled back to punch him in the face and realized I couldn't hit the man that raised me. “
Sounds like you lived out Boy Named Sue
I knocked him on the ground first and pulled back to punch him in the face and realized I couldn't hit the man that raised me. “
Sounds like you lived out Boy Named Sue
This post was edited on 6/9/19 at 11:35 am
Posted on 6/9/19 at 11:40 am to 3morereps
I get along with both great. They’re more like close friends than parents now that I’m grown.
Met them in Starkville yesterday for the MSU baseball game drank some beers with my dad. Might all go to Omaha if MSU makes it and also visit my grandmother in Lincoln who isn’t doing well.
Met them in Starkville yesterday for the MSU baseball game drank some beers with my dad. Might all go to Omaha if MSU makes it and also visit my grandmother in Lincoln who isn’t doing well.
Posted on 6/9/19 at 11:43 am to 3morereps
Both of my parents aren’t around anymore. My mother died about three years ago. My father is alive but we don’t speak.
At 41, I’d never imagine this would have happened.
I’m lucky to have two younger siblings.
At 41, I’d never imagine this would have happened.
I’m lucky to have two younger siblings.
Posted on 6/9/19 at 11:51 am to cypresstiger
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Sounds like you lived out Boy Named Sue
my name isn't Sue and my dad didn't abandon me but we did get in a fight. I was a punk arse teenager that needed my arse kicked.
Posted on 6/9/19 at 12:21 pm to 3morereps
Better since I left for college. But it wasn’t bad before. It’s just when I lived with them we got on each other’s nerves. We aren’t as close now but still close. I don’t remember ever having any major argument or fight with them since high school.
Posted on 6/9/19 at 2:10 pm to 3morereps
My dad is my best friend and is going to be the best man in my wedding.
Wouldn't trade my mom for anyone in the world.
I'm an only child and we have always had a very close relationship.
Wouldn't trade my mom for anyone in the world.
I'm an only child and we have always had a very close relationship.
Posted on 6/10/19 at 8:16 am to 3morereps
My life is a lot like Everybody Loves Raymond. My parents live just down the road. We spend a lot of time with them. My mom is bossy, my dad is along for the ride (and the food.) I love them and I usually consider what they are up to before making any big plans. My wife and my mom get along for the most part, but occasionally have little passive aggressive remarks. My brother is over there all the time, sometimes mopes about how much better he thinks my life is.
Overall though, we all love each other a ton. We're hard on each other, but spend a lot of time together and have a ton of great memories. My wife is expecting the first grandkid for my parents, and they couldn't be more excited. Everyone is looking forward to many more years of fun together.
Overall though, we all love each other a ton. We're hard on each other, but spend a lot of time together and have a ton of great memories. My wife is expecting the first grandkid for my parents, and they couldn't be more excited. Everyone is looking forward to many more years of fun together.
Posted on 6/10/19 at 8:18 am to Mr Fusion
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My life is a lot like Everybody Loves Raymond. My parents live just down the road.
Your poor wife, that sounds miserable.
Posted on 6/10/19 at 8:22 am to lsunurse
She actually takes it all in stride now. Although we're about to start a fun episode. Going to Destin with my whole family (parents, aunts, uncles and cousins) + my wife and her mom. We're getting on the road in about an hour.
God bless her.
God bless her.
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