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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My Mom is my best friend and I love being around my Dad too.  I think I just got lucky in the parent department.[/quote]

Or you're in a unhealthy relationship but you're too deep to realize it. I wouldn't brag about this. [/quote]

That's a nasty or jealous reaction. Not sure which. Either way, it's just sad.  Plenty of people are close with their parents and the relationship is happy and healthy on both sides. (Not me, but I know a few.)[/quote]

Agree. What a crazy, ridiculous thing to say. Why couldn't or shouldn't a mother and an adult daughter be close friends?

I do consider my parents to be friends. We enjoy spending time together. My parents treat me like an adult and do not offer unsolicited advice. I feel completely comfortable with my parents, especially my mom. But I wouldn't describe them as "best" friends, because we do withhold information on certain topics. Primarily about our marriages--they don't discuss theirs with me and I don't discuss mine with them. But there is other stuff that I might discuss in detail with a close friend but that I don't go into much with them, often because I don't want to worry them.

OTOH, DH doesn't consider his parents to be "friends," though they are perfectly pleasant, kind people who generally treat us well. But they never stop thinking of themselves as THE PARENTS, who should be honored and deferred to and who always know best. They give unsolicited advice and continue to think of themselves as more experienced and knowledgeable about most things, even though their children are all at least a half century old and do in fact know a lot more than they do about many topics. The upshot is that their children all hold them at arm's length, rarely confiding in them about anything or sharing anything really important with them.[/quote]

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