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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is astonishing to me that people think Gen X had it so much easier.  First generation from broken families.  Mostly neglected, not always benignly.  Education funding cut.  Graduated into a recession.  The list goes on.  Now we have college aged kids and are struggling to afford bloated tuition while incomes haven’t kept up with costs.  Our retirement savings are inadequate and many of us are caring for our aging Boomer parents who don’t have enough money because they spent stupidly.
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All true, but we were also conveniently sandwiched between wars we didn't participate in much - too young for Vietnam, and too old for the post-9/11 conflicts.  I know exactly one of my peers who was killed in battle (I graduated from high school in '86).  My younger millennial wife graduated in 2000, and a number of her classmates were killed or left legless due to IEDs in Iraq.  So we didn't have it that bad...

The biggest issue we had (but really only if you were from an upper middle class suburban background) was the fact that our parents - especially mothers - despised us as a burden that prevented them from pursuing all those wonderful life-expanding experiences that the likes of Betty Friedan and other toxic wretches promised them.

It's hard for other generations to fully "get" but we had a whole generation of parents who regretted having us and did their best to pretend we didn't exist.  I think a lot of this was jealousy of younger Boomer women who had access to all the jobs and social adventures that they were denied.  Imagine being born in 1938 and in 1970 being told by all the cool kids that you were too old and "Don't trust anyone over 30."  But instead of being good adults they just turned into spiteful a-holes and took it out on their burdens (children).

A lot of people my age from suburban NY experienced this, and now we need to pay the bills for these hateful old bats as they get into their 80s.  Fun fun.[/quote]

You married someone 15 years younger than you?[/quote]

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