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Do others feel this way with other children too?
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember1" data-source="post: 752978" data-attributes="member: 23706"><p>I love your post, chasejazz.</p><p></p><p> I feel it is one of the wisest, truest, and most honest posts I have read here. It resonates with me. And it's so true that many millennials divorce their families and feel no guilt doing it.</p><p></p><p>And you bet the new hip therapists are pushing estrangement with "toxic" parents, whatever that means. It was never this way in my day. Kids didn't talk to parents like these kids do. We didn't use our parents only for money. We didn't cruelly leave our parents and be proud of shedding them.</p><p></p><p>It's new and very common. Even encouraged.</p><p></p><p>I am so sorry for your pain. You posted very brave words, words some people, like me, don't want to admit. That some kids don't love their parents. That many walk away with no regrets these days. That now is NOT the way it used to be. My daughter misses our money, but not us. There is no love in her heart, certainly not for us.</p><p></p><p>Worse, we are not odd in this. I wish we were.</p><p></p><p>Parents always had problems with their kids, but it usually did not end up in estrangement, abuse of the parents and encouragement to stay estranged. Now more than ever we need to live our own lives.</p><p></p><p>I feel that, with distance and this new lax attitude toward family, it is much harder to put our family first in our lives. And we should not.</p><p></p><p>I agree that we don't owe anybody the story of our life. I hear many stories but share very little.</p><p></p><p>God bless.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember1, post: 752978, member: 23706"] I love your post, chasejazz. I feel it is one of the wisest, truest, and most honest posts I have read here. It resonates with me. And it's so true that many millennials divorce their families and feel no guilt doing it. And you bet the new hip therapists are pushing estrangement with "toxic" parents, whatever that means. It was never this way in my day. Kids didn't talk to parents like these kids do. We didn't use our parents only for money. We didn't cruelly leave our parents and be proud of shedding them. It's new and very common. Even encouraged. I am so sorry for your pain. You posted very brave words, words some people, like me, don't want to admit. That some kids don't love their parents. That many walk away with no regrets these days. That now is NOT the way it used to be. My daughter misses our money, but not us. There is no love in her heart, certainly not for us. Worse, we are not odd in this. I wish we were. Parents always had problems with their kids, but it usually did not end up in estrangement, abuse of the parents and encouragement to stay estranged. Now more than ever we need to live our own lives. I feel that, with distance and this new lax attitude toward family, it is much harder to put our family first in our lives. And we should not. I agree that we don't owe anybody the story of our life. I hear many stories but share very little. God bless. [/QUOTE]
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