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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents have been happily married for 50 + years. I totally get where you are coming from OP. The hard part for me is that they are joined at the hip. I have no memories of doing anything with just my dad or just my mom. It was always the two of them. Plus if you confided in one, they always told the other. So I learned that I could not have an independent relationship with them. When people talk about being friends with their mom, I assume they are able to do things with just her. I can't and never have. If I call, they always run and get the other parent as well. I don't really talk to them alone on the phone either.

At this point, I don't expect it will change, unless one dies and the other lives long enough to develop a new way of relating to me. Of course, I am pretty sure they will die one after the other. I cannot imagine them living without the other.

My friends think it's great that they are so in love, and it is. But there is a cost. [/quote]

Codependence at its best/worst.  Ignore the negative posters, this is unhealthy and you are right to try to distance yourself from it and to want a one-on-one relationship with each of them and not just interact with "parents" as a unit.[/quote]

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