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Originally Posted by elphenor
I've been acting like "it's all cool" my whole adult life
but it looks like my siblings and I have made a pact to where there will never be a grandchild to explain it to so help us God
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I honestly don't know how that cathartic conversation is supposed to go. Parents have too much emotional leverage over us for us to have a conversation on equal footing unless that parent is so far gone that they're basically a monster who you should just write off anyway. So any conversation is going to entail us giving them too much deference to the point that we can never truly articulate how we feel without basically screaming at them in a way that makes us sound like crazy people. I mean if they were willing to listen to reason and hear our feelings then they'd probably have just been good parents anyway.