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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mother used to do this.

It's not that they get meaner. It's that they lose their filter and words just blurt out. They don't think before they speak like most of us do, partially because [u]they are out of practice for having to do so in an office/ community environment[/u]. [/quote]This is what I'm seeing in my mother. She's been retired for 20 years and although she worked all her life and raised three kids, it seems like she's forgotten what it's like to work in an office or take care of kids.

That and the Facebook. Mostly all she see's of her old friends is their Facebook posts. Old people like to brag. As a community they're all becoming snobs.[/quote]

My mom used to be the nice one when I was a teen, my dad was always an a*hole. She has been on the decline and COVID made it worse. Now she is even worse than my dad. I cannot even be around them. We are estranged. [/quote]

They become more of who they really are. My father has always been a chauvinist and now, forget it. It’s all hanging out. I can’t stand to be around him because he looks down on women, especially if they’re educated and did better in life than he did (it’s just because of DEI, no other reason a woman can be successful and if she is BUT she’s a good conservative Christian who hates the commies, well, she must be blessed by Jesus). [/quote]

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