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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe it's because I was raised in a generation where you were considered an adult at 18, and parents pushed you to be independent. I don't understand the entitlement so many express here, that they expect their moms to keep helping them and doing for them as adults. You're adults now. Your mom spent decades raising you and doing for you. Now anything she might be able to or willing to do for you is optional, a bonus, gravy. That's what being an adult is about. You accept what people have to offer, and the fact that at some point, the teat runs dry. [/quote]
Yep once you're 18, out of the house and off the teat! Want your mother to listen? Too bad, you're off the teat! Want a mother to give you advice about about your two year old? Too bad, off the teat! Want some empathy when your father is dying? Too bad, you're over 18. Off the freaking teat! 
Don't you see how ridiculous this argument is? [/quote]

It will be interesting to see how this argument holds up when OPs mother is old and needs help managing care late in life. Somehow I don't think it will go over well for OP to say "you're an adult, deal with it!" And lament the lack of independence in the older generation. [/quote]

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