Your parents.
May 16, 2016 at 9:12 pm
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2016 at 9:13 pm by paulpablo.)
What was your childhood like? What were your parents like? How was your upbringing?
For better or for worse my parents have always been together. My mother has always taken anti depressants for as long as I can remember and there's been plenty of fierce arguments between my parents. There's never been any violence, spanking or whatever.
My dad has always been some sort of tech support person in terms of his career, my mother has worked in administration and a few other less well paid jobs. They're not rich or poor, somewhere inbetween.
My Dad drinks, but very responsibly. Neither of them take illegal drugs.
I think there's always been a lot of passive aggressiveness on my mothers behalf. She's always been the type of person who would never teach me or have me doing the washing up throughout all my childhood years, never let my dad do the washing up, then complain that no one else does the washing up while also complaining when anyone else does the washing up that they shouldn't be doing it.
Generally my parents have both been very kind to me and mostly ok with teaching me stuff. Just very lacking in teaching me stuff that helped me gain independence from them that I think slowed me down in life a lot. Things like learning the value of money, cooking and cleaning are things that I pretty much stumbled across myself over the years. Also my parents have never owned a car so learning to drive was a big step for me, I feel like I spent my childhood years just walking and walking everywhere.
In regards to if I've turned out much like my parents, I've always had OCD and what you might call some experiences of depression. In my teen years and early 20s I'd say I self medicated with illegal drugs and alcohol, now in my later life I think exercise and a good sex life is good substitute for drink and drugs and it makes me feel better. My dad can be quite passive aggressive too which I'm conscious of and I try and counteract that in my personal relationships by saying what I mean bluntly and directly as much as possible in situations that require it.
For better or for worse my parents have always been together. My mother has always taken anti depressants for as long as I can remember and there's been plenty of fierce arguments between my parents. There's never been any violence, spanking or whatever.
My dad has always been some sort of tech support person in terms of his career, my mother has worked in administration and a few other less well paid jobs. They're not rich or poor, somewhere inbetween.
My Dad drinks, but very responsibly. Neither of them take illegal drugs.
I think there's always been a lot of passive aggressiveness on my mothers behalf. She's always been the type of person who would never teach me or have me doing the washing up throughout all my childhood years, never let my dad do the washing up, then complain that no one else does the washing up while also complaining when anyone else does the washing up that they shouldn't be doing it.
Generally my parents have both been very kind to me and mostly ok with teaching me stuff. Just very lacking in teaching me stuff that helped me gain independence from them that I think slowed me down in life a lot. Things like learning the value of money, cooking and cleaning are things that I pretty much stumbled across myself over the years. Also my parents have never owned a car so learning to drive was a big step for me, I feel like I spent my childhood years just walking and walking everywhere.
In regards to if I've turned out much like my parents, I've always had OCD and what you might call some experiences of depression. In my teen years and early 20s I'd say I self medicated with illegal drugs and alcohol, now in my later life I think exercise and a good sex life is good substitute for drink and drugs and it makes me feel better. My dad can be quite passive aggressive too which I'm conscious of and I try and counteract that in my personal relationships by saying what I mean bluntly and directly as much as possible in situations that require it.
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