re: What is your relationship like w your parents now that you’re grown

My dad is a simple guy. I don't think he looks forward to anything more than a beer with all of his sons the few times we are all in the same place each year.

After that, he's pretty content until the next holiday or get together.

Very close. See one or both of them at least once a week. Call my mom on the way to work

She doesn't do it often luckily but it's annoying. My dad calls a day ahead to tell me he's stopping by.

Get along great with my dad but don't really see him that often.

I see my mom quite often and I'm much closer with her, but we both have very short fuses and don't take any of each other's shite. I'm trying to bite my tongue more around her but she really needs to be put in her place. She can be very rude without even realizing it, but most of the time she's the sweetest person ever.

Great relationship with my immediate family. We have dinner, every Tuesday, at my parents house. My sister (BIL and her 5 kids plus one grand kid), my brother (his kid) and my son and I.

I love my kids, both in their forties. and are close. We have mutual respect, but its more difficult to have long conversations, unless it on politics or religion, because their world is so different.

If you’re no longer close to your parents, take it from me and make time to rebuild that relationship. When they’re gone, they’re gone forever. We unexpectedly lost my mom on Christmas Day last year. You never get it back, and even tho we were close, I still feel like there was more we could have done together if she had more time.

Better than it was when I was a kid.

Mom and Dad divorced when I was 7. Mom immediately moved us 100 miles away and married a jerk, eventually divorced that jerk when I was in college. Much later, she remarried a nice, chill fellow who we all adore.

4 years after the divorce, Dad remarried and is still married to my stepmother.

With my mom, she finally grew up and since she became "Grandma" she is lot closer to us all-- doesn't miss ANY grand-kid events or games; she and her husband splurge for a big extended family week vacation at the beach in Florida every year, takes the extended family out to dinner for birthdays and such. Stuff we never did when I was growing up.

On my end, I've taken her on short road-trip vacations with my girls and I, and out on our boat. Much more affection, hugs and "I love you" said.

As I grew up away from my Dad, only seeing him on holidays and summers, we are not that close, but we make a point of getting together 3-4 times a year to play golf, go boating/fishing and of course he and his wife are included in all the BIG grandkid events. Will go up and see him this Sunday for sure.