Is complaining about taking care of parents more taboo than complaining about taking care of your kids?
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Do you think people are very judgmental or have little tolerance to listen to someone who is frustrated, overwhelmed, or even resentful of helping take care of a parent or parents, while most people understand kids can be challenging and you can complain and love them all at once.
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There is a huge difference with your emotional bond to each. What you say out loud and what you truly feel can also be completely different.
People like to complain. It let’s them vent. I suspect people complain more about taking care of their parents.
I don’t see those two things as being related, beyond the most obvious generational references.
@Forever_Free My experience is people don’t complain much about taking care of their parents except to people very close to them who will for sure be sympathetic, while mommies joke about needing mommy juice, needing to put their kids in the corner, etc.
I don’t have personal experience with taking care of parents, but I think that taking care of children is an obligation whereas taking care of parents isn’t necessarily. It may be, but there are options when it comes to parents (nursing homes, assisted living, personal care aides). People may feel obliged, because they are the only child, or the other kids aren’t stepping up, or they want to keep the inheritance out of the hands of nursing homes, but it’s not quite like a kid, where you know going in that this is on you for 18 years.
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