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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll speak for DH. His two sons dropped out of college, had issues with law enforcement, and really struggled as young adults. DH is very Type-A and success to him is making a million dollars on Wall Street. One son is a hard blue-collar worker and has a small business and the other is floundering with a drinking problem. So yes, he is disappointed but knows he cannot do much. [/quote]

Why isn’t he proud of the hard working blue collar son with a business? Does he see his kids as extensions of himself instead of actual people? [/quote]

Bingo
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It's the downward social mobility that gets to DH. Both he and his ex-wife had Master's degrees and worked professional roles. But the small business son is doing back-breaking work in some podunk part of middle America and keeps on marrying single moms and the other works nights and complains all the time about how much he has to work. Both of them admit that they should have stayed in college. [/quote]

That’s what divorce does. “But kids are resistant!”[/quote]

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