I'm wondering if the way a person was brought up would reflect on who they are as a person later on in life.
For instance I have been with someone for around 9 months, he recently told me that he has never been on holiday, never been abroad or anything like that, does not own a passport but apparantly neither of his parents have ever been abroad, been on holiday or own a passport either, the only "holiday" he ever had was when his mum took him for short breaks to butlins as a child but his dad would never go with them.
The way their family works is that all 3 of them work, his dad comes home from work first and sits and watches TV for the rest of the night. Then my partner comes home, goes in his bedroom and plays on the xbox/computer for the rest of the night and finally his mum comes home and has to cook everyones tea or just orders a takeaway and she sits and watched TV or occasionally goes for a drink with friends.
They seem to lead such a boring, depressing life but it seems things have always been like this for them.
DP says he doesnt want to end up like his dad but it seems to me that he's already like that, sits and watches tv for hours and does sod all else unless I natter at him.
So although he doesnt want to end up like his dad, is it inevitable that if he ever moved in with me we would end up like his old family life?