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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many of us here have parents with plenty of their own money, they don’t need assistance from their kids.  What they need is someone to abuse and manipulate.  And their financially independent kids are saying, no.  Not here for that.

I’m hoping to have a relationship with my child that isn’t transactional.  Breaking that cycle.  Ignore the lesson at your own peril if you want your kids to speak to you in your old age.  It’s truly sad that anyone thinks money buys love.  I feel very badly for them, because they’ve likely never been loved.[/quote]

I understand, but most of us don't have abusive parents.[/quote]

This. Many of us loved our parents while recognizing they had flaws, i.e that they were human. There seems to be a small handful of posters who had a very different experience (although sometimes it’s hard for us readers to separate the real abuse from the entitlement and narcissism and drama llamas).

All of which is to say that this handful of resentful ACs is holding the rest of us hostage by hijacking every thread to talk about themselves. I wouldn’t go so far as the other poster did and say you’re boring, but I’m getting there.

These ACs have plenty of threads hating on their parents, probably 30% of the threads here. Why can’t you be satisfied with that, and let the rest of us get on with threads like “Tell me a story about your mother”?[/quote]

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