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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP clearly has a blind spot toward her own behaviors. All 3 kids? She thinks they are spoiled but takes no blame? Describes herself in positive ways and everyone else in negative ways. She’s the problem.

Boomer women didn’t work and did far, far less kid centric things than millennials do today. Their identities were tied to their husband, his work, friends and having kids. As those things have slipped away with time , they seem very empty and are forcing themselves are their adult children.

I’m GenX and see it with our boomer parents and their siblings. Not a one did anything more than a card or call on Mother’s Day for their mothers but boy do they still demand a full on celebration of them on Mother’s Day. As GenX we just ignore it or appease them but I see my millennial younger cousins being much less tolerant of the behavior. [/quote]

You could not be more wrong here. You have your generations mixed up. Boomer women were the first to be in the work force fully,  and they were expected to be in the work force- not a choice thing. We broke glass ceilings in the work force, established work policies for women in while in the work force, expected to take on male dominated STEM field roles with less pay, expected to manage  daycare effortlessly,  fought off misogynistic practices, sexual abuse and workplace harassment,  and as they said over and over in ads and songs: " She brings home the bacon and fries it up in a pan."

Our identities were  not tied to our spouse and  women were frowned upon if they did. Many of us married later, had kids later,  and we were the first generation to normalize  divorce. We were the first to keep our names. We had our own accts.

I am 66. I have friends in the age group going towards 75. Some a little older.  No one was a stay at home wife and mother. All  socioeconomic levels, all income levels.

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I would say you were the exception, not the norm. My boomer mom got married 20, had me at 23, never went to college. She did work, but only sporadically when she had to. She always had jobs, not careers. [/quote]

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