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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes! The overly hot, overly loud house. And the parents shiffle around baffled why we are so uncomfortable after I say, Mom,it's hot in here and I can't hear you over all the TVs that are turned on.

It's almost funny when I'm not there.[/quote]

I don’t understand how people change so much. Were they this way when you lived at home? My parents (early 70s) are similar to how they were decades ago. Similar habits, similar preferences, similar sensibilities.  [/quote]

I hope you’ll be the exception, but for my parents 70 to 75 was a gradual but noticeable change and 75 to 80 was a time of rapidly accelerating change. Although my dad was a decade older than my mom, their aging trajectories followed similar paths.

Most people don’t acquire new traits, hobbies or habits as they age and drop many others along the way. So the habits that remain intensify and are more obvious without the backdrop of all of the other things that used to fill their lives. Someone who is loud in the early morning but then disappears for a walk with friends, the office, or a hobby isn’t noticeable in the way that someone who is loud in the early morning and then sits in the kitchen for 2 hours might be.[/quote]

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