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[quote=Anonymous]My parents drive me up the wall and I don’t know how to have a better attitude about them. Advice welcome.

They don’t seem to have any interest in me as a person or anyone else in my family as people. They will ask questions, but they don’t really seem interested in the answers and generally use them as a springboard to talk about something else. Like they will ask one question about our DD’s school or whether we’ve been vaccinated, and then launch into these long monologues about unrelated stuff— their neighbor’s landscaping, my sister’s job, etc. Whenever we talk, I feel so drained but will realize we didn’t tell them anything about our lives.

I ask them about their lives, their hobbies, their home. Ask after their siblings if I haven’t caught up with them in a bit. Ask about political goings on in their town. I’ll even follow up on the neighbor’s landscaping.

But they just don’t seem interested in us at all and I don’t get it. They just want to talk about themselves, but not even important things, just superficial stuff (like the neighbor). I’m at a loss. It was easier when we could visit, of course, but truthfully this dynamic was in place long before Covid.[/quote]

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