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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a mom of 2 boys and I feel sorry for me about it.  I don't think so much about when I am older, though that is part of it.  I took care of my mother while she was dying and my brothers were barely present.  Moreover, I did things for my mother that she absolutely would not have wanted my brothers to do (nor would they have been willing).  I mourn the daughter I never had.  My boys are wonderful but they are so wild and crazy and loud and boisterous...girls can be like this too, but the chances are less and even when they are, it's usually not as crazy.  [/quote]

Yeah. You say that now. Just remember, if you had had a daughter, she would have ended up in therapy talking about you.[/quote]

There's something to be said about having daughter(s).  My brother and I are equally close to my parents and my brother is very good to them materially.  Nevertheless, it is me that call them daily and check up on their health.  It is me who makes the doctor appointment and assess their financial situation.  My brother adores them but in a very different way--he would not think twice about taking care of them should they need him financially-buy them expensive gifts and tend to their material needs.  However, there's no emotional nurturing.  He could go for months without checking on them.  My mother bemoans how short their conversations are and yearn for him to be more in touch with them.

My husband is devoted to his parents, but it is me who reminds him to call them.  His phone conversation with them lasts at most 10 minutes.  When he visits them, he eats and watches TV.

I have 2 boys and they adore me.  Nevertheless, I don't expect them to have the kind of relationship that my mother and I or my father and I have.  Most men do not communicate that way.  I think I will have to develop a good circle of women to grow old with (in addition to my husband of course!).

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