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Maybe I'm just crazy but I even tell my cats I love them. They deserve it.
You kiss them, too, don't you? I do!
It's worse. I had four cats. Now only one is still living. But sometimes I say hello to the little wooden boxes in my room that hold the ashes of the other three...
Hey, for a few years, it was the five of us living together and sharing the couch when I got home from work at night. They were my family.
Like many people in this thread, my parents have been dead for quite some time - well before I was ever a "senior" or retired.The most recent death was my husband's mother in 2008. They had a complicated relationship and I don't think there was a lot of affection or admiration ever expressed from either side.
Probably not as common then as now, but I am (was, whatever) an only child and I was born when my parents were 34 and 38. Likewise my husband, whose parents were slightly older than mine.
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It's worse. I had four cats. Now only one is still living. But sometimes I say hello to the little wooden boxes in my room that hold the ashes of the other three...
Hey, for a few years, it was the five of us living together and sharing the couch when I got home from work at night. They were my family.
Yes I do, on the top of their heads. They expect it now.
I've always had a cat family. The only ones who are consistent!
Sorry but no. She made me feel awful about myself from early childhood and it continues today.(She's 93). I am polite & respectful. That's the best that I can offer.
I understand that many of us grew up with parents who were not the loving people they should have been. I am not implying they deserve sweet words if they never did anything to deserve them.
But I recently read in a Dear Abby column that two men (not same family) have done this and shortly afterward the parent passed away. I thought it was a really loving thing to do. At the end of life with all the infirmities the elderly suffer, to tell them they are loved must give them a wonderful feeling that they are loved. I think many parents understand they could have done a better job (including me).
I imagine it would provide peace of mind to these people before they pass on.
I have certainly told my parents that I love them, many many times over the years.
I don’t have a lot of respect left for my dad, other than for the simple fact that he’s my father. But as a person and as the husband of my mother, he lost much of my respect years ago. Pretty sure he is very aware of at least some of his shortcomings, but others, he is just oblivious.
Like many people in this thread, my parents have been dead for quite some time - well before I was ever a "senior" or retired.The most recent death was my husband's mother in 2008. They had a complicated relationship and I don't think there was a lot of affection or admiration ever expressed from either side.
Probably not as common then as now, but I am (was, whatever) an only child and I was born when my parents were 34 and 38. Likewise my husband, whose parents were slightly older than mine.
That's how it will be for my daughter. She was born when I was 33 and her father was 35, and she's an only.
In my immediate family, it's varied. There are seven of us. My father died 20 years ago, but my mother is still living at 91. My oldest sister is 69 and retired, but my youngest brother was born when my mother was a few months short of 41 and my dad was 48. Different perspective and different relationships with the parents, too.
I have mostly run out of elders. My sister is 91 and my sister-in-law is 94. Our kids and grandkids still love us.
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