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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I always felt like an afterthought, my parents had their adult lives and adult interests and they fit me into their life.  For instance, we would go out to a fancy restaurant on Saturday nights because that's what they liked, or my mother cooked gourmet meals every night with spicy food because that's what they liked.  I would have loved to go to a kid-friendly restaurant instead or eat grilled cheese for dinner (and as an adult I don't eat spicy food because of my childhood).  I wish my childhood had been more kid-friendly but my mother would say things like, "I'm not making a whole Thanksgiving dinner for just the 3 of us," etc.  It made me feel like we didn't have a real family and that I was not enough.[/quote]

Hmm. [b]It's hard to tell whether you have a whiny and resentful personality, or whether your parents really never did anything you asked for.[/b]
Parents of the old persuasion were taught to think that children did NOT come first, unlike modern parenting philosophy. Neither my friends nor I had parents who bent over backwards to make everything kid-friendly, however, they showed they loved us in other ways, such as occasionally doing things we really wanted. Those occasions were rare and treasured.

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You're in absolutely no position to judge that or even raise it. [/quote]

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