feeding_baby_dolphins@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 months agoDo you know a lot about your parents or are they semi-strangers to you?message-squaremessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down13
arrow-up1123arrow-down1message-squareDo you know a lot about your parents or are they semi-strangers to you?feeding_baby_dolphins@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square17fedilink
minus-squareCaptainSpaceman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up33arrow-down1·7 months agoI know more about them than they know about me
minus-squareOrbituary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·7 months agoSame. My parents love and adore me, but their interest in learning the details is strangely not part of that adoration. I, on the other hand, know about their lives, their friends, history, heritage, etc., because they talk about it. This is not a full picture of the relationship. I’m 47, they’re in their 70s now.
minus-squareMonster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·7 months agoYep same. I know how they grew up, what they like and dislike, their personalities, basically everything. On the other hand, they just assume I do nothing but play video games all day and have no other interests. Couldn’t be farther from the truth.
minus-squareRhynoplaz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·7 months agoI wish my kids would tell me anything that proves they don’t just play video games all day. I’m not saying that’s what they do, I just wish they’d open up so I could know any of this stuff.
I know more about them than they know about me
Same. My parents love and adore me, but their interest in learning the details is strangely not part of that adoration.
I, on the other hand, know about their lives, their friends, history, heritage, etc., because they talk about it.
This is not a full picture of the relationship. I’m 47, they’re in their 70s now.
Yep same. I know how they grew up, what they like and dislike, their personalities, basically everything. On the other hand, they just assume I do nothing but play video games all day and have no other interests. Couldn’t be farther from the truth.
I wish my kids would tell me anything that proves they don’t just play video games all day.
I’m not saying that’s what they do, I just wish they’d open up so I could know any of this stuff.