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Psychology suggests that adult children who are the most loyal to their parents in late life are often the ones who never quite became close to them — the loyalty is the substitute for the closeness that didn’t form, and the visits, the calls, the careful attention are sometimes a daughter’s way of paying for an intimacy that was supposed to have been included
The hardest thing to explain to younger generations about growing up in the 1960s and 1970s isn’t the lack of technology — it’s the specific quality of unsupervised time, the slow afternoons, the boredom that produced things, the freedom that came with no adult tracking your location — and most of those conditions have been correctly retired, but the people they produced are unlikely to be replicated
I’m 64 and my son got divorced last year and he called me late one night and cried on the phone for twenty minutes — and I realized that was the first time in his adult life he had cried in front of me, and I also realized that I had never cried in front of him, not once, and I understood in that moment that he had probably been waiting thirty years for permission I had never thought to give him, and I started crying too, and we sat on the phone in the dark like two people finally being honest
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