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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I always felt like an afterthought, my parents had their adult lives and adult interests and they fit me into their life.  For instance, we would go out to a fancy restaurant on Saturday nights because that's what they liked, or my mother cooked gourmet meals every night with spicy food because that's what they liked.  I would have loved to go to a kid-friendly restaurant instead or eat grilled cheese for dinner (and as an adult I don't eat spicy food because of my childhood).  I wish my childhood had been more kid-friendly but my mother would say things like, "I'm not making a whole Thanksgiving dinner for just the 3 of us," etc.  It made me feel like we didn't have a real family and that I was not enough.[/quote]

Hmm. It's hard to tell whether you have a whiny and resentful personality, or whether your parents really never did anything you asked for.
Parents of the old persuasion were taught to think that children did NOT come first, unlike modern parenting philosophy. Neither my friends nor I had parents who bent over backwards to make everything kid-friendly, however, they showed they loved us in other ways, such as occasionally doing things we really wanted. Those occasions were rare and treasured.

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