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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You younger Boomers and older Gen Xers are in for a very rude awakening. Very soon. Best to look at the landscape and change your immature, selfish behavior now.

-If you hurt someone, you apologize, and change your behavior

-If you have grandchildren, you respect their parents, and go with their flow

-If you continue your selfish, immature, harmful behavior, don’t be surprised when the natural consequences of YOUR choices is distance, silence and ultimately no contact.

The time for you to grow up and take responsibility for your actions is now. Before it is too late.

—yep
And don’t think for a second that we will be missing out on anything. There are plenty of healthy relationships that we have with neighbors, colleagues, friends, people in our community that more than make up for the “loss” of your harmful presence in our lives. You will not be missed, or mourned. [/quote]

It's so weird that you have staked out this position and believe it to be the high ground.

I doubt very much there are any Boomers on this thread -- Boomers are in their 70s and 80s for the most part now (the youngest ones would be mid-60s) and Boomers by and large had their children (GenX) at a much younger age than people did now. So I would wager most of the people replying here from a parent's POV are GenX.

Don't mess with GenX. We don't give a flying eff. Really, we don't. We love our children, but threatening us with emotional manipulation unless we contort ourselves to your bizarre worldview isn't going to get you the results you want. Next week marks the 40th anniversary of us watching a teacher explode in real-time on live TV and then we were sent back to class. We roamed the streets until the lights came on. We drank from the hose. Our parents told us to stop crying or they'd give us something to cry about. We tried to do better with our own kids, but you're not going to succeed in bullying us with this kind of an attitude.  Go on and take your ball and go home. We're not going to chase. We'll be fine. Nothing can hurt us anymore.

Ultimately, it will be YOUR regret, anyway. [/quote][/quote]

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