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Soon2BMrsSikes · February 2011

How is your relationship with your parent(s)?

katsblaze · February 2011

My dad lives about 10 minutes down the road, and I only see him about once a month. I know it is bad, but we had a rocky relationship for a while, so that is progress. I would like to see him more, but my SM and I do not always get along.

My mom is amazing. Yes she gets on my nerves sometimes, but that is expected. She is at my house a lot during the week to help with the boys. Honestly I don't know what I would do without her. On that note, Happy Birthday to my wonderful mom!

sushisamba · February 2011

I would say I have good relationship with them, although not super close. My dad is content to just hear from my mom that I'm doing ok and get updates from her - he doesn't need to speak directly to me. My mom I try to talk to once a week, although sometimes its less. I don't tend to share too much with her though.

snoopy3319 · February 2011

I think our relationships used to be better.

My dad went through a nasty divorce, and I actually think he's starting to go crazy, in a not so good kinda way. I told him at Christmas about the baby, and when I called him in January, he had totally forgot. It's not like him.

My mom used to be my hero. Then she had an affair and I'm not a huge fan of the new guy. Although, he's probably the best thing for her. He's just weird, and I'm not a fan of how the whole thing went down. It really made my step-dad a better man, though, and now he and I have repaired our relationship. Go figure. I still love my mom, though, and we talk a couple times a week.

crystaljkbj · February 2011

My dad died a little over a year ago, but we were very close.

I live about 2 minutes away from my mom. Personally I don't know what I would do without her. She picks up Jordan from school for me and gets Preston a good bit from daycare. She helps me with the kids so much. She does have what she calls a "male friend" she just started seeing about 2 months ago. I really really like him...which i sort of feel bad about since he isn't my dad, but he is a good guy. He is really nice and loves my kids! He even came to Jordan's bday party Saturday. Preston laughs and smiles at him all time and actually reaches for him.

LesPaul · February 2011

Mom died when I was 9, so I can't even explain what that's like. Dad died 14 years ago, and I miss him so much. I adored him, and I wish he could have met DH.

dora12 · February 2011

I have an awesome relationship with my mom. I don't know what I would do without her. She has helped me with so many things. My dad is another story. I use to look up to him but ever since he cheated on my mom things aren't the same.

kaesha · February 2011

I have a great relationship with both my parents. I talk to them once a week (they're in Ottawa while I'm in Toronto), and see them whenever I can. We often do the family vacation thing because it's just so much fun.

abarber340 · February 2011

I have good relationships with both of my parents. My dad and I weren't close when I was growing up. After my parents got divorced (I was in 5th grade) my dad was forced to reexamine all of his relationships. He learned from the divorce and made a change for the better. Also because they are divorced, I am forced to call each of them separately. I talk to my dad about 1-2x per week and talk to my mom about every other day.

SusiOT · February 2011

I'd say I have a pretty good relationship with my parents, and it's as close as it can be given the distance. My mom's an all around good person with a heart of gold--I only wish I could be so sweet and understanding. My dad is a fantastic man--he's done so much with his life and I admire the hell out of him. I'm fiercely proud to be their daughter because of all the obstacles and hardships they endured and overcame. And they were awesome parents. We look to them as role models in case we have kids.

They're visiting three weeks from tomorrow. Yay!

birdsandships · February 2011

I'm very close with both of my parents, and my brother (only sibling). I consider all 3 to be some of my closest friends and love them dearly. I live about 2.5 hours away, so I don't see them all that often, but we talk all the time.

thecarrotflower · February 2011

My family is really close. I love my mom and my dad they are the most hardworking people I know and worked their butts off to provide a loving home for us kids(there are 5 of us). My mom was a stay at home mom until I was about 16 and was an amazing advocate for my youngest sister and brother (she was diagnosed with Autism when she was three he was diagnosed with Aspergers when he was 13). My dad is self-employed and has always works extremely hard at what he does, making sure he does the best job possible.
We used to go over to their house about twice a week for a meal but since we moved 1000km away we don't really get to do that. I talked to them about 3 or 4 times a week, sometimes less most of the time more.

rebaann · February 2011

My dad died four months before the wedding. Our relationship was not so great at the time, but getting better.

My relationship with my Mom is good, but very hard right now. I used to call almost every day while I was walking home just to catch up, but then it became hard to use the phone. Then hard to use email/gChat. She's just getting worse very quickly and I miss talking to her. I am going home next weekend for a quick visit and I am sure that it's going to be extremely difficult.

ring_pop · February 2011

It's OK, not great.

My dad has always been the Traditional Chinese Patriarch type. He also worked in an office where he was the boss and everyone called him "Mr. (LN)". I think that ever since we moved out and he retired, he's had trouble accepting that he doesn't have people to boss around anymore, so he's gotten more and more neurotic about silly little things, and as a result, he seems to be randomly upset at me all the time for no reason that I can understand.

I love my mom and I appreciate that she's always been the peacekeeper and the one holding the family together, but now that I'm grown up, I also realize that she did it through manipulation. She's a great mom though.

Basically, there are some weird dynamics in THEIR relationship with each other, and now that I'm old enough to see and understand it, it's affected MY relationship with them.

charity5115 · February 2011

I'm very close with my mom, I usually talk to her multiple times during the day. She is such a caring and loving person. She always went out of her way to make sure that I had all I ever wanted and needed, including those not-so-fun lessons that you learn to appreciate when you are older.

My dad and I were close when I was younger, but after my parents divorced things changed. The older I get the more I see how alcohol has changed him and I have made the decision to distance myself. I still love him very much and will always miss the dad he was when I was little. We are slowly working on fixing our relationship but he recently moved to OK for work so it makes it a little more difficult for the time being.

rayne779 · February 2011

My relationship with my mom is fantastic. She is such a strong, amazing woman, and I look up to her. She would do anything for her family, and has always supported every decision I have made (whether she agrees or not).

My relationship with my dad is good too. We both have an Irish temper, and butt heads pretty often. But we have a lot in common, and normally get along.

karimychel · February 2011

My relationship with my parents is rock solid. We had our ups and downs through my teenage years, but we're all on the same page now. I talk to my mom almost daily. This started after I moved. Prior to that I would talk to my dad almost daily, we had a routine of calling each other on our commute after work. When we lived in AK, we would try to see them at least once a week.

starsailorr26 · February 2011

I get along well with my parents now. After I moved out on my own I learned to appreciate them and our relationship much more than when I was younger. I work 5 minutes from them so I go visit at least once a week.

ECHC829 · February 2011

my relationship is weird....

I'm much closer with my dad now, but I didn't get along with him at all after my parents divorce (5th grade). Around college we got better, and it probably gets better every year... although we dont live that close.. I talk to him about once a week and see him a handful of times a year.

My mom was a SAHM until the divorce... then she had a mid-life crisis and was always dating. We had a good "relationship" but I think its because I was treated as a friend and not a daughter and I think we have issues because of that. She also lives about 3 hrs away, and I only see her maybe twice a year.... I wish she'd be moer involved in my life but I think shes afraid since her mom overmeddled... she doesnt' want to be that way... but I'd like to have more of a mother figure.

Overall, I'm closest with my aunt (dad's sister). I email with her almost daily (she's in seattle) and she probably knows the most about my daily life.

blenderdance · February 2011

Excellent. I am super close to my mom...we are definitely more best friends at this point in our lives than just mother and daughter. We even talk about sex. I am close to my dad too, but he isn't quite as talkative, so I talk to my mom more. Luckily Ed gets along great with my parents too. We all had a blast in Florida last week--I never felt like I was getting sick of being around them...if anything I wished it was longer.

rxbeth · February 2011

My relationship with my Mom was okay. We had many similarities and so we clashed quite often but we also some good bonding but definititely not enough. I stayed in the teen angsty time period way too long and shut out my family a lot.

My relationship with my Dad is better now since my Mom died. Losing what you love the most can really make you re-evaluate your life. I do wish he would drink less. He is definitely more needy of me now and he wishes I would call more often. He's dating a wonderful woman now and I really really really like her. But it's hard to see him act with her in ways that I had never seen him act with my Mom.

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