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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That you had kids late, and now they're very old, and are rigid and inflexible in a way they wouldn't have been, were they in their 50s.[/quote]

In order to have had kids when my parents were in their 50s, I would have had to have kids in my early 20s, at a time when my parents would have been HORRIFIED if I'd become a parent because they really drilled it into me that I needed to have more money, own a home, and be established in my career before marrying and having any kids. Yet now they are annoyed that they are grandparents to young kids at an older age and blame me for not having kids until my early 30s

This sort of hypocrisy is very common. In my 20s, I had roommates and lived in crappy places because it was cheaper and enabled me to save. They complained endlessly about this because at 25/26 I didn't have a 3 bedroom house with a nice guest bedroom (preferable two, because they don't like to sleep in the same room, they are not divorced) and the funds to host them easily. Now I do have a house and a guest room (just one, sorry) plus have young kids who would LOVE to see their grandparents, and they complain that they don't want to travel and we should come to them, even though we have school and work and can't go stay with them all the time.

I'm fine with my priorities not always matching up with my parents, but I get tired of these circular arguments where it feels like they always want the exact opposite of what is even possible and are annoyed with me for not being able to bend time and space or overcome basic restrictions like budget or needing an income to accommodate them.[/quote]

Oooh I get this too from my mom.  But she's perfectly fit enough to travel to the places she wants to go.  She's just too old and frail to visit me and the kids....[/quote]

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