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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry dear, but all three of us children are quite well adjusted - and not one of us is a whiny, entitled bitch.  We support and love our husbands and are thankful every single day for what they do to support our families.

I wish I could find the quotation my father used in eulogizing his father.  It was something to the effect that mothers get all the credit while fathers are underrated.  Yet, it was his father, always in the background, who was the strength and support for his children, as he was for us.  I am not diminishing my mother's role. She did her part too.  However, I think we as a society, and especially a good number of the posters on this group, bash the fathers of their children as "useless" or "uninvolved."  Perhaps some are, but I bet most are doing the best they know how, just as you are.  [/quote]I generally like you, OP, but it bothers me how much you generalize about people today. Some of us on this thread don't have anything like the experiences you describe - either uninvolved husbands or an earlier generation of women who never complained.  I get that you love your parents and that you are probably missing your dad like hell today but it bothers me that somehow you're looking at your parents and thinking that it was an ideal situation that everyone should have experienced.  Your family is your family and I very much appreciate your nuanced appreciation of them.  But they're your family, not mine. [/quote]

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