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post 1682401983 05-09-2023, 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted By MBisonSon⏩
Ironically among siblings many times the child who had it the worst is the one to come back and tend to his parents, while the siblings who were treated the best are nowhere to be found.
There is some truth to this. I have a family friend that works in a nursing home and she tells me the richer and higher class the family is, the kids don't come around much. Strange.
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post 1682402313 05-09-2023, 09:52 PM
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staying in touch somehow probably stresses you out less as long as you can keep some order for everything. imagine them separating and going buckwild to stress you out more
post 1682402453 05-09-2023, 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted By niospecv⏩
There is some truth to this. I have a family friend that works in a nursing home and she tells me the richer and higher class the family is, the kids don't come around much. Strange.
Some wealthy families are very narcissistic, so the kids eventually finally break free and aren’t looking to increase the time spent with parents. And narcissists tend to get pretty bad with age.

Or the kids are spread all over the place with work responsibilities, so they literally can’t visit more often. And aren’t relying on an inheritance.
post 1682402653 05-09-2023, 10:00 PM
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Originally Posted By 401Delta⏩
^^ that's dumb af.

I'm a hardcore conservative and I like rocks way more than most people and dogs and trees more than all people.
you know the world is chit when a rock is better than most people
post 1682402733 05-09-2023, 10:01 PM
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It’s ok op, bad things happen to bad people
Losers let it happen, winners make it happen.

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post 1682403403 05-09-2023, 10:16 PM
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i feel ya op 100%.

i was a kid with ADHD, and my parents thought i was literally the devil because of it.

i was starved (my growth was stunted, srs), isolated, while my brother was treated like a king.

my parents actually made sure my brother and I never got close, srs.

now they are old, and i'm the only one around to take care of them. its hard to deal with
post 1682403563 05-09-2023, 10:19 PM
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Originally Posted By bicmane102⏩
i feel ya op 100%.

i was a kid with ADHD, and my parents thought i was literally the devil because of it.

i was starved (my growth was stunted, srs), isolated, while my brother was treated like a king.

my parents actually made sure my brother and I never got close, srs.

now they are old, and i'm the only one around to take care of them. its hard to deal with
fuark, this is tough. Sorry broski. You're doing the right thing.
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post 1682403673 05-09-2023, 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted By niospecv⏩
My mother is 75 and my father is 80. Both are retired and can't do much anymore. My father has been a smoker since his teenage years and stopped 5 years ago when he suffered a heart attack.
My mother has a torn ligament in one of her knees and she's been overweight all my life. This weekend I installed shower grab bars, shower chairs, and new shower heads with a secondary shower handle in both bathrooms so they can shower sitting down. My mother uses a walker while my father needs oxygen around the clock to breathe because 45% of his lungs are dead and it will get worse over time until he can't breathe and dies.

I have mixed feelings because my childhood wasn't the best and to be brutally honest, my father was and still is an ahole even when he's rotting away. He is former military and refuses to go to the VA to get assistance from the government because he says, "I don't need it, other people need it more than I do." Like I said, he's an ignorant ahole.

Now, I am cleaning their bathrooms and the rest of their apartment every 2 weeks. My wife helps me with this to get it over with quickly. My sister takes my mother to get groceries and my nephew helps from time to time with heavy things.

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parents are old af and OP is helping them but OP has mixed feelings because childhood sucked.
When they're actually gone you won't feel anything but regret at not doing better. Not being a better person, son, and spending time with them.
post 1682403833 05-09-2023, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted By niospecv⏩
fuark, this is tough. Sorry broski. You're doing the right thing.
you too brotha. its hard to stay positive, but we both got this. srs
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