Do you live near your parents?

How often do you see them?

How well do you get along with them?

Do you live near your parents? No

How often do you see them? Sometimes

How well do you get along with them? They cook food, i eat it when available

If you lived in the same town as your parents. Would you go to their house everyday? (This is assuming that you do not live with them and have a house/family of your own)

i live in the nearby town ... (15 min drive )

i see my mother 2-3 times a week min (dad passed away a few yrs ago)

i have said i do believe on other threads ... i was in college when i really remember thinking "my parents are strange " .... in general i do get along with my mother - but in her older age --- her negativity about EVERYTHING .. has been amplified ! (so alot of things i wish i could share with her .... i can not --- especially financial things ...)

my mother lives with us. My dad died 4 years ago.
We got along better when she didn't live here but all in all it's ok. She's very independent and does her own thang usually. She still can piss me off with one word, but that's just the button pushing of a mother and a daughter

SUCKS! SUCKS! SUCKS! SUCKS! LOL...

Do you live near your parents? They live about a 40 minutes drive away.

How often do you see them? Every other month or so

How well do you get along with them? My mother and I are fairly close. My father and I aren't so much close, but there is love there. But we all get along well.

Do you live near your parents? yes

How often do you see them? every day

How well do you get along with them? very well

Nothinbutjoy said:

My mom is about 25minute drive away, but my dad is in a coffin in boston.

I show up a couple of times a week to make sure all is good with the old lady. She's 70 and lives by her self. She's Mostly/Blind Blind.

I give her shit, and she trys to give me shit back. She's lost her touch, and I owe her payback for a childhood worth of pain and anger. So we get along well.

right now i live far away from both my parents and i miss them like mad. Last year, i saw my dad practically every month and i saw my mother twice. that's because she lives in the southwest and i'm an east coast girl. but when i lived in the states i would talk to my mother practically everyday. now i talk to her once or twice a week and i speak with my dad every week or so. so yeah, we get along and i love them lots.

Nothinbutjoy said:

If mine lived around the corner:
I'd be there for dinner once a week and my mum would be at my house every second day babysitting and I'd get her to walk the kids home from school, and she would do my ironing.

oh why do they have to live 4 hours drive away

Do you live near your parents? My mum lives in a granny flat at the back of my house...has done every since she got divorced from Dad...when it first happened she didn't even know how to put petrol in her car.....showed her alot of things and now she is a very indepentant stong woman

How often do you see them? Mum every day lol ....Dad a couple of times a week

How well do you get along with them?Mum is my best friend ...I have some issues with Dad ....I try not to focus on them since I think he isn't in his right mind
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Ocean said:

sounds familiar

charlottegelin said:

*smile* families lol .....

Ocean said:

I need to try not to focus on my dad too, he drives me spare

example:
Max was born on election day last year, so my dad visits the hospital after Howard was voted in again, looks at baby Max briefly and starts talking politics!!! I need to take deep breaths and stand back

charlottegelin said:

I know what u mean hun....I could tell a few stories from this week alone ..its hard to see the strong man u looked up to as a child become sad, confused and pessimistic (my dad )

Ocean said:

I remember mine as very strict and authoritarian, and now there's nobody to boss around any more.
my folks haven't split (yet) but my mum says the only way she can stay with him is to treat him like someone disabled, to accept that he is no longer in touch with the real world.

charlottegelin said:

That must be hard for her... ...Dad used to speak to my mum really badly ...it got to the point where what he was saying she couldn't live with anymore.....after 45 years of marriage I went around there one day and she said can I come home with u ....while tears streamed down her face

Ocean said:

oh god, she is lucky to have you. That is so awful. But at least she did it, she moved out.
My mum puts up with my dad, she just takes it. When they visit us, she is often not allowed to talk at the dinner table he tells her to shut up and stop interrupting. And it is HIM that should shut up! He monologues about things he (and nobody else) is interested in for 20 minutes at a time and expects our full attention even though we have 3 screaming children in the background

charlottegelin said:

I never thought my mum would be strong enough to leave..she had put up with it for so long..who knows one day ur mum might surprise u and tell him to shut up *smile* ....and I am very lucky to have my mum too....she is a second mother to my kids..my confident and friend..she loves me even when I don't love myself thank god for mums

Ocean said:

thank god for them indeed!

Nothinbutjoy said:

I'm moving to another borough when I move out...I'm too old to be controlled.

Nothinbutjoy said:

yeah, i'd be at my dad's almost every day.

Do you live near your parents? No, well, they're about 130 miles away.

How often do you see them? About three times per year.

How well do you get along with them? Eh, I'm not too happy with the Ps lately.

gemini13 said:

more details?

MickG said:

My Dad is old and getting senile and I think has dementia. He's highly critical and I don't appreciate it. My Mom is someone I've not ever really gotten along with due to her childishness.

Said too much?

Probably.

gemini13 said:

You can't say too much especially when it comes to issue that define you. Didn't you read what I posted about on here? Maybe you should scroll back some and check it out.