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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it because of teenagers?  I'm younger, but I had my kids young.  Teenagers are wearing me down.  Way down.

Hopefully they launch.  Please god let them launch.[/quote]

Oh honey, have you had the lovely experience of adding a parent with angry, hostile, mean, agitated dementia to that? Nothing like getting venom from both sides. It's a special taste of H&ll when elderly parents act like hostile teenagers, but you know it will only get worse and at least teenagers get better.[/quote]

PP here, I'm lucky that my teens and my elderly mom are not necessarily difficult people.  But just dealing with the kids' stuff and then the phone rings and having to switch gears and help an elderly parent with some random, out of left field (time consuming) thing...it is sort of draining.

When our parents were our age their kids were launched already so we really don't have a memory of our parents juggling both teens/tweens and elderly parents at the same time.  It's hard and feels sort of thankless at times.  It makes me feel like I'm half azzing everything because there is always something.[/quote]

Well said and I so relate!![/quote]

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