Relationship with parents

Hows that working out for you? Are you close with your parents. Do you like one over the other? I just wonder cause I grew up with my mother and I like her and all but at the same time I wouldn't mind not speaking to her for long periods of time. I just wonder if it's wrong or not. I mean I decide that for myself at the end of the day but what are your experiences with this?

I think I have a good relationship with my parents. Granted, it's a lot better now that I'm older so I'm more able to see them as individual human beings rather than just authoritative figures. It's not that I like one over the other, but I'm closer to my father. It's sort of unfair because my mom is the breadwinner of the family and so it was my dad who took care of us more so I suppose I naturally bonded more to him. But I do appreciate my parents a lot which is something I probably wouldn't have really understood when I was younger.

As for me, I have a wonderful relationship with my mom and dad. (^_^) we always talk and hang out. Well, there are times when they get mad at me for being too lazy and I sometimes talk back but that's all. We always manage to work things out by talking it over.

Haha I always feel like such a downer when I post. But now things are fine between me and my parrents. But, when I was in middle school-early highschool my parrents were at each others throats and took it out on me and my brother. After they devoriced it qas like they were two completly different people. Especially my dad. He really calmed down ans was a cool guy. Mom is still really nasty sometimes but it's tollerable in small doses. We live only about half an hour apart so we do lots of things together. Dad lives in Texas now, so I see him once, twice a year. We call maybe twice a month.

Mine is better than it has in my past. My parents divorced when I was 4, I was sent to live with my father. He's a good man, but alcoholism and his smoking habits contributed to some minor neglect at points. My mother is a nice person, but she suffers from ADD and clinical depression, plus her financial situation is as such that even when I was a kid she would never have had the resources to take care of me. My father remarried, my step mother loves me, but she's mentally ill, bipolar disorder among other things, and this contributed to about 11 years of off/on emotional abuse. When I turned 16 it moreorless was a nonissue at that point, and I don't harbor anger towards her as, she's not well, and in the long run I turned out okay. My father and step mother divorced two years ago, and I've noticed my father and me have a much better relationship. I still talk to my step mother. As for my mother and me, its hit and miss. I love her, but she's often irresponsible and done other shit that's just... mystifying to me. I live near my father and his parents, so I get to see him often. My grandparents had a huge part in raising me, and I maintain good relations with them, although the 50 year disparity in values, religion and culture is entirely apparent everytime. But I have respect, they've been together since they were 18 and 20 respectively, and are now well into their 70s.

My relationship with my parents is strained. I was my mother's punching bag. My father didn't really give a shit about my siblings and I. Both depended on their kids to clean up their mess. For awhile, I thought this was normal until I stood up to them. As I got older, I see them as people who need to get their shit together on their own. I learned they are toxic to me, so I keep my distance from them. I don't feel affection towards them. However, I wish them well. With those in mind, my closest relationships are with my siblings and a friend who acts as a mother figure.

Mine is decent. I'm closer to my father than my mother. You may be feeling that distance towards your mother because you've lived with her most your life. I personally feel it's normal.

It's weird. I love them a lot but there are a LOT of things they don't know about me and they don't express any Interest in my life or what I like.

They are my closest friends. I admire both of them, they work incredibly hard and love each other like they're still on their honeymoon. Through 18 years of growing up with them, I never once saw them fight, only an occasional disagreement. Pretty much everyone I know says that my parent's relationship is just bizarre with how well they go together. Nobody's ever seen anything like it, and neither have I, haha. They were very strict but fair growing up, but after I joined the military we treated each other as equals. I lucked out in the parents department, to be sure.