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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Launching your kids to be successful adults is the whole point of parenting. Some of the best advice I got at my wedding shower was to invest in my marriage because kids will leave and you’ll still be married.

Having kids taught me that I will never love my parents as much as they love me. My own kids won’t love me as much as I love them either - and it would not be healthy if they did. I hope they find a partner to love as much as I love my husband and if they choose to have kids, I hope they love their kids as much as I love them.  That’s the circle of life. [/quote]

My son loves me as much as I love him.  [/quote]

You simply cannot know that, and it is unquestionably true that his love for you is very different than yours for him.

You sound really needy, btw. I hope for your son’s sake you didn’t do the whole emotional incest thing that too many needy mommies do with their sons.[/quote]

He really does.  He’s an only. Maybe that’s why.  Either way, I’m very lucky.  [/quote]

I wrote the first post in this chain and I’m an only child. I am close to my parents. They live nearby. They have a great relationship with my spouse and my children. We also have healthy boundaries and mutual respect. I stand by the fact that no child loves their parents as wholly and unconditionally as a parent loves their child.

My parents will do anything for me and by extension my children, their grandchildren. I care about them and I go out of my way to be thoughtful and helpful - but I put my own children’s physical and emotional needs before my parents’ preferences. I will inconvenience myself or sacrifice for my kids in ways I will not for my parents. The nature of my love for my parents, my spouse, and mg children are all different - as they should be.

I’m sure your son loves you - but I hope you are secure enough that you can make space for him to have his own family and to put his spouse and children first. [/quote]

+10000. The person who claims her son loves her as much as she loves him really needs to get a life. "I'm very lucky" Ahuh. I'm sure he feels smothered.[/quote]

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