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I think the cutting off is used to liberally. For abuse, sure, no argument from me, but there is a thread in the Family forum about stopping going to visit grandparents because they are boring.

My mother grates on my nerves. She repeats stories and gets fixated on inconsequential things, but she's in her 80s for goodness sake. I called that woman every day for years when I had babies and small children. She was my lifeline when I needed support, had moved to a new city, and was lonely. If I'm totally honest, talking to her doesn't "bring me joy" at this point, but how horrible would it be of me to stop that effort because I find it tedious because the poor woman is old. Very horrible.[/quote]

Agree.  As a PP noted, GenZ is often self-centered and too focused on their own emotional validation to look at the big picture of familial relations over the grand scheme of life.  My elderly mother was incessantly patient with me for many years, was (and is) incredibly loving, but is certainly not perfect.  She obviously didn't approve of every adult decision I made, but neither did I expect her to.   I love her to death and happily listen to repeated stories because in the overall calculus of life she has been pretty darn good.

I feel like with GenZ if you don't embrace (or monetarily support) every questionable young adult decision, you get labelled controlling or toxic.     My current pet peeve is being considered annoying because I refuse to allow pot smoking in our home (I hate the smell).  I don't care what they do at school or in their own apartments, but I do expect that my preferences in my home be respected and honestly, I am annoyed at having to repeatedly explain that position.  [/quote]

I don’t think GenZ are more self centered than the previous generations - being self-centered and know it all at that age range is basically a rite of passage.  But they are the first generation where the outside third parties found a way to scale and monetize it.[/quote]

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