I love my parents, and I believe they did the best they could for me and my siblings. I don't agree with everything they did, but on the other hand, they never gave me the impression that they thought of themselves as perfect.
Sometimes you learn best by having a "bad" or should I say counter example. I'm not going to make the same mistakes they made.
I'm just going to go ahead and make my own mistakes, and hope my daughter understands.....
By the way, excellent posts, whining about parents is mostly a cop out. If we blame someone else for our problems, we don't have to take ownership of them, and do the work needed to fix ourselves. Sure other people do things to us that we don't like, but it is up to us, as adults, to deal with our issues, and own our own mistakes.
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bill hicks - "I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out."
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