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When you're a kid, you don't realize you're also watching your mom and dad grow up.

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DAC Protogen@lemmy.world
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It was really weird for me to have some honest talks with my parents once I was well into adulthood. It took me way too long to realize they are people with their own problems to solve and a life and preferences, a personal history and all that. It’s weird how you tend to see your parents differently from other people until they deem you old enough to open up.

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lungdart@lemmy.ca
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My parents died when I was young. Seeing other people’s adult relationships with their parents is so foreign to me. My parents are frozen in time in my memories, and I can’t imagine what their lives were really like or what kind of People they were.

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intensely_human@lemm.ee
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Same. My mother died when I was 26. My step mother is now 70, and her mother just died a couple months ago.

I can’t imagine my mother still being here, and still being here until I’m old.

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