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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why?  We have five.  Three college grads. One in college. One senior in high school. Our oldest lives in Georgia. Our second in Colorado.  Our third in Florida. Our fourth is in London.  We see all of them several times a year.  I miss them.  But, I’m super proud of the independent young men and woman they have become.  [/quote]

You do realize that you can have "independent young men and women" as adult children who also live nearby, right?  It's called being a close family.[/quote]
DP, but it’s often called having kids who are “not very independent”. May not be the case for your family, of course. [/quote]

Please explain why kids aren't "very independent" if they live in the same metropolitan area as their parents.  Does being "very independent" require that you move to the other side of the country and only have perfunctory visits with your parents a couple times a year?  My definition of "very independent" is having a job, supporting yourself, owning your own home, and having a partner.  I didn't know that being "very independent" requires detaching yourself from your parents and siblings.

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NP and my definition of independent means having a job, supporting yourself and living on your own. You don’t consider someone who rents an apartment independent? Or lives with roommates to afford to pay rent? Or someone who lives on their own but has no partner? Geez - your view is also narrow.[/quote]

Oh stop it.  You're just being contrarian.  Of course what you've described is independent.  I was talking about my kids' current situation.[/quote]

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