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What IS the point? Adult kids don't seem to care.

Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Apr 4 9:07pm | Replies (125)

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@rosebookay

Congratulations! You have succeeded in infantilizing your adult children! They live “at home” and you wonder why they treat you the way they do? You can’t seem to let your adult children live their own lives and make their own mistakes. This situation is classic co- dependence. They “need” you but YOU “NEED THEM MORE.” Can YOU get some help to learn how to extricate all of you from this bizarre situation. They will never grow up!

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I don't believe I did that. My son for instance who got married but then divorced was having a very hard time surviving even with being married out of state and needed a hand up. We got him back employed. My daughter married a deaf man who has always been protected by his family in the Memphis area so we pretty much took over from them because we were raising a daughter so we felt she should be protected. They get along great and even he is employed. They both are employed actually. There isn’t any excuse though for either of our kids to insult me or curse at me. We didn’t raise them to be that way to me. My brother in NY feels my daughter is hiding behind the keyboard when she talks that way to me electronically. My husband even though we have had marital problems has gotten tired of reprimanding them. He is 76 years old. I’m 64. If we have to get in to a shouting match with them we could end up having heart attacks, I never got into any shouting matches with my parents after I turned 18. They aren’t children anymore, they are in their 30’s and 40’s. My husband feels they should know better. And they should know better because they were raised better than that. We don’t have many problems with our son in law, just our own at times. I don’t believe I need them more. I don’t mind having them around when we all are getting along. I just want to see them grow up and progress in life and I don’t mind giving them a hand to do that. Afterall they are my flesh & blood. My daughter and son in law lived in the Como MS area for awhile next door to his mother, so they lived on their own somewhat for awhile. They also tried to buy a house where we live with a USDA loan but it didn’t work out. It’s taken them time to progress in life but it shouldn’t give them any reason to insult & curse at me, that’s showing that they don’t have respect for me. It’s up & down,