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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know...I look back at all of the pretty selfless things that my parent did for their kids - everything from flying out to help with a newborn baby, to driving for hours to help one of her kids through a couple of surgeries, to allowing her grown kids to move back in with her for months (even years) , to being her grandchildren's biggest fans and filling her basement with fun toys...never missing any event no matter how big or how small.

I look back at that and, yeah, Mom can be annoying at times but she has done her part.  [/quote]

Yes, your mom has done her part. Some people have parents who didn't do most of those things and still feel entitled to be verbally abusive and overly demanding. In some cases these are people sitting on piles of money and refusing to spend any of it on help because they expect their adult kids who have families and jobs to do it.[/quote]

Yep.  There are those people too.  And, no, it is not their kids' jobs to drop their own lives to rush in and take care of them.  My mom has always been good to us but I can't drop my own life and tend to her full time.  Luckily she seems to understand that and does not expect that out of me!

I have to be able to take a weekend trip away to tour a college with my kid or to take them to/from college.  Dh and I have a milestone anniversary coming up and we would like to finally take the honeymoon that we never took.....

It's a different phase of life for our parents but our own lives still go on.  We will be in the retirement home ourselves before we know it.[/quote]

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