What are your parents like?
- Thread starter MrDawn
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My parents are laid back and very easy to get along with. Though I feel that they were a bit too lenient on me growing up, I didn't have chores growing up and I loved it as a kid but I had to learn skills that I should have learned as a kid when I moved out of my parent's house at the age of 20.
My dad was pretty chill and didn't really care too much about what I was doing as I got older as long as I wasn't getting into trouble and I was okay. He was usually the one that I'd call if I was having car problems, and he'd get it fixed when he was able to. We kinda drifted apart as I got older though, and he had a big issue with smoking and drinking that largely affected our relationship. He obviously knew when his actions affected me because I would get upset, but it was still damaging.
My mom is the stricter one and always kept on me about doing well in school. She's probably a little too overprotective, and I think at times, that sometimes affected my relationships with others (or maybe it's just the usual struggles of maintaining adult relationships lol), but she's been trying to ease up a little bit. She was the parent I was closer to growing up, and she's usually the person I'll go out and do stuff with, and we usually have fun doing it too. Definitely a frustrating person at times though, but it's usually something that can be worked through.
I think probably the largest downside is there were a lot of things I didn't really know about going into adulthood, and a lot of things I didn't really understand because my focus was just meant to be on school. When my dad passed, it basically forced me into learning all of this stuff about life that I probably should've already known and largely didn't (other than what I'd read online and hearing about others' experiences), and it was definitely a wild ride. I wish I'd been exposed to it all a little bit sooner to be better prepared instead of having it all thrown in my face all of a sudden.
My mom is the stricter one and always kept on me about doing well in school. She's probably a little too overprotective, and I think at times, that sometimes affected my relationships with others (or maybe it's just the usual struggles of maintaining adult relationships lol), but she's been trying to ease up a little bit. She was the parent I was closer to growing up, and she's usually the person I'll go out and do stuff with, and we usually have fun doing it too. Definitely a frustrating person at times though, but it's usually something that can be worked through.
I think probably the largest downside is there were a lot of things I didn't really know about going into adulthood, and a lot of things I didn't really understand because my focus was just meant to be on school. When my dad passed, it basically forced me into learning all of this stuff about life that I probably should've already known and largely didn't (other than what I'd read online and hearing about others' experiences), and it was definitely a wild ride. I wish I'd been exposed to it all a little bit sooner to be better prepared instead of having it all thrown in my face all of a sudden.
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