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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.

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I think it's the same with many GenXs. My mom also doesn't understand why I spend so much time with my kids, go to their sports events and participate in school activities -- because she never did. Now suddenly there is this "but you are my daughter" etc. which comes as news to me since I was never "that daughter" when I was a teen/college student/young adult or even any age adult until now. In fact she didn't even bother to tell me about periods and when I mentioned it as an adult, she said why didn't you just ask your friends. As they say, some people are just takers, so they expect things done for them and then talk about obligations and responsibility (which they lacked both towards their kids and their own parents). These are the people we get to read about here and think how to do things differently. [/quote]

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