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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When our car was totaled (oh, the things that happen when you park on the street in DC!) and we decided not to replace it, MIL flipped out. The words "But you can't live without a car!" actually came out of her mouth. She went so far as to call my mother in a desperate attempt to get her to intervene and "stop this ridiculous thinking."

My mother comments EVERY DAMN TIME she visits about our lack of microwave.

Both of them think there's something deeply wrong with us living in a small rowhouse in the city. "Don't you wish you had more space?" No. "Ugh, I can't believe you're okay having people on either side of you." It's a rowhouse, kinda how this whole thing works. "I don't understand how all this noise doesn't make you nervous." Because it doesn't. "Why can't you be like your sister a buy a normal house in a normal neighborhood?" I'd sooner slit my wrists than live in the far flung reaches of outer suburbia in a cookie cutter house circa 1992.[/quote]

Does it make you feel like your parents don't know you at all when they make comments like this?  My parents didn't understand me and I sort of felt like they didn't like me because I had a life very different from theirs.[/quote]

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