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[quote=Anonymous]Started with Greatest Generation, then Silent and now Boomers downsizing and dying. There’s an entire sociological study at play and can’t be simplified into some sort of mantra where your children must fall into lockstep and dutifully and joyfully handle all aspects of elderly parental choices. Saying this as Gen Xer - very generally, our parents were entirely hands off and the polar opposite of helicopter parents - so to suddenly be enmeshed in seemingly intimate decisions, discussions and conversations is odd. This isn’t how we were raised. In retrospect, I had tremendous anger towards my mother - she got increasingly more entitled in her final years- demanding my time, attention and service to her - even criticizing me that I was “too concerned” (her words) about my own college bound DC and that I worked too much. My takeaway was - where was this interest in me as a teenager/college student/newlywed? Not there. [/quote]
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