Do you have at least one thing that you think your parents did wrong - which you feel definitely had an effect on you growing up? And because of this are you trying your absolute damnedest to do the exact opposite with your own DC?
My father was a complete workaholic, all his self esteem was wrapped up in his job, and to him work was everything. He really looked down on people without a "career". It consumed his entire life to the point that I feel like my mum was a single parent for most of my childhood.
This has affected me so much that now I am a dad myself, I have deliberately quit my job so that I can spend more time with my kids. Perhaps this is an overreaction too far the other way, but that is what tends to happen when you're determined not to repeat the mistakes of the past.
And the massive massive irony is that the only reason I can afford to have time out of work like this, is because my dad died young and left me a sizeable inheritance - built up from his lifetime of work. So his obsession with work has directly funded my ability to stop work. He would be turning in his grave.
Is anyone else determined to do some things differently to their own parents?
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Deliberately doing the opposite to your parents
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PapaEachPeach · 05/03/2015 17:17
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