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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not surprised to see boomers crow about how amazing and special they are lol![/quote]

No kidding. Reminds me so much of my mom who thinks she’s soooooo amazing and special and never has a kind word to say about anyone else.[/quote]We are not your Mom. Grow up.

Also, Boomer Moms are amazing. Sorry- but we are. [/quote]

So your problem is not with people generalizing, it's that you think the generalization should be "Boomer moms are amazing."

My Boomer mom is not amazing. I'm not going to generalize to an entire generation. I have peers who had Boomer parents who were great -- in some cases I'm so glad to have had their parents in my life to help me learn what a functional family looked like. But I don't assume my family is the norm or that those families are the norm -- there's a ton of variety.

I will say that the dysfunction in my family follows a pattern I've discovered also exists in many other families with Boomer parents and Millennial kids. My grandparents were abusive alcoholics who were likely traumatized by depression and war and treated my parents really badly. My parents then had kids young and, having no positive role models for parenting and really limited resources for addressing their own trauma and mental health, did a pretty poor job raising their kids. There's definitely now tension and division in my family because my siblings and I have had to spend our adulthood addressing the fall out from physical abuse and emotional neglect we experienced as kids. I could see my mom writing a post similar to OPs.

If your experience is different, good for you. But don't assume you represent the norm and everyone else is an outlier. Also, your almost militant insistence that you are emblematic of all Boomer women does actually speak to a level of self-involvement and refusal to acknowledge that you might be incorrect that others in the thread are also assigning to their Boomer parents.[/quote]

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