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@kdo0827

Wow! I’m with you, I would never ask someone to take a taxi from the airport to get to my house! It seems to me that she could’ve had the grandchild nap earlier. As for Christmas gifts we do White Elephant. So I don’t expect a gift from our daughters although they do normally give me something but not even a card this year. I’m sure my depression isn’t helping how invisible I feel or is how I feel making my depression worse? 2019 is going to be the start of a new journey of my husband and I putting ourselves first and we’re going to start doing things we want instead of bailing out our kids every time they have a money problem. We certainly learned how to survive and it’s time they do too. We’ve spent thousands of dollars and I’ve depleted my 401K to help them. It’s time for us now.

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Also, I cannot imagine that your kids are too busy to call you like you requested. We all have the same 24 hours each day. They just need to make time for you.

When things change and my sons (ages 48 and. 44) do things differently than I would have, I have to remind myself that the world is different now, crazier and a lot less nice. I’m glad I live in the nicer world. But they are both doing well and are good people. The oldest even moved to the city so he’d be closer when I got sick! When I get down I just remind myself of that.