SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

NEVAH!!!!!

charlottegelin said:

I am lucky I am the girlfriend my mother so desperately needs It's so funny because we both love reality shows and we watch them together and discect them and if she watches one before I do or vice versa, we always crack up at the exact same things. I love watching TV with her

It's funny that you would mention this, because I was just thinking about this very same thing today. My mother and I are close in age (she had me at 17). Ours was not an easy relationship due to the fact that she was too young when she had me, early divorce from my dad, countless, useless boyfriends, and her bouts with alcoholism. I was closer to my grandmother because she would always save me from my mother's craziness. Over the years my mom got her life together and has shared a close relationship with her mother. I have since mover clear across the country ( -ran is more like it) and started a family of my own. Mom and I have got a better relationship than we had before.

But here we are in 2006 and our relationship is strained again because the one thing we shared is now gone - my nanna . I never knew until she passed how special she was in keeping us together. When my mother was my age, I was already gone and moved away. And now I see her moving into the role my grandmother had (age, position of the family, etc). It scares me to actually think about her dying or worse - me! But what really gets me is how much older my mother acts than the actual age she is. Does that make sense?

I think it's something that most of us experience as we get older.It's just a part of the process. But why do I still feel like I'm 17 on the inside?


Thanks for reading my ranting!

Kissmequick said:

I feel very young inside too!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

back at you!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

it's not even that aspect of it for me, at least not now. I just don't like seeing them get old, contemplating that one day they might not here here.

My mother is starting to become like my grandmother to a certain degree and is really starting to look like her. When we talk on the phone she's always talking about how upset she is that she's starting to look like her mother. So I tell her, "well ma, she is your mother."

retina said:

yow-za!!! that is young to wrap it up. Tina Turner is over 60!!!!

Yeah, see, I think we want to always think of our parents as being the age they were when we were growing up.

I was thinking about this the other day, because I'm dating a guy who is quite a bit older than me (41), and I sometimes catch myself thinking that he and my parents are the same age. Totally not true. . . my parents are 15 years older than he is. But in my mind, my parents are perpetually the age they were about 15 years ago.

Weird.

LisasBrush said:

Hey I see old folks still driving around in the very FIRST car they ever bought!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

YES!!!!

And I even catch myself saying the exact same things my Dad would say to me when I talk to my daughter.

althom said:

O-M-G! I can't believe how many times I catch myself saying/doing things exactly like my dad.

LisasBrush said:

I get half way saying it and then think..."what the hell!!!!!"

althom said:

like "fiddlesticks!"

charlottegelin said:

Errr...no.

althom said:

or "don't use that tone of voice with ME young lady!"

charlottegelin said:

Oh yeah! That one!

althom said:

your dad used to say that to you all the time I bet!

charlottegelin said:

althom said:

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

yes

Gram is still far cooler than my mom will ever be Mom's in bed by 9, Gram stayed up and watched Prince on SNL

I am showing a lot of characteristics of my mom however

where's my freaking post!