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

FightMilk@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 1535 points –
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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.

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.

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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