RULE 10
They love you just like you love your kids
For most of us, when we’re little our parents are the most important thing in the world. We can’t imagine them not being there, and we feel we simply couldn’t cope if they weren’t. Our world revolves around them.
As we get older they are still central to our lives, but we spend more time away from them and their importance is less central. Then we start to get into long-term relationships, and our partner is even more important than our parents. Once we have children, they become the focus of our lives (along with our partner) so that our parents, much as we still love them, are no longer the focal point as they used to be. We’ve moved on.
But what has happened to our parents? Well, consider ...
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