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Parents (or primary caregivers) always exert an influence on their children. That's why I think one should have to be licensed to become a parent (tongue only partly in cheek here).
My Dad: Intelligent, jovial, caring (in re:family), very straight- laced, conservative, hardworking, co-dependent.
Mom: Intelligent, humorless, self-centered, neurotic, highly judgemental, mentally ill.
Me: Intelligent, jovial, caring, judgemental, hardworking, working on my neuroses.
I may sound like the *ungrateful child.* I guess that could be true. My father chose a highly damaged person with whom to procreate.
It's way too late for me to be angry at him or my mother. Children love their parents no matter how crappy the parenting- and mine were not that bad.
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