He and I argued a lot because I just figured he was not the boss of me and so therefore should not be telling me what to do. He didn’t care that I was grown. The fact is I am my father’s child and I figure that’s why we butted heads just a little too often.
This is one of the reasons you know I will always say live your best life as you never know how things will turn out as we go through this journey called life.
Prioritize what you should keep and what you should leave. It’s just like when you packing your bag to get on a plane you can’t take everything especially when you travelling with a certain no frills airline that shall remain nameless.
The love for the parents is one thing but there are the siblings and the extended family. Do you want to be around them or would you prefer to not even be related? Would you want to give back the family card?
Living by yourself when you are younger is so different from when you live on your own later in life. No that’s not my own words but said to me by a number of older relatives.
Being a parent comes with no manuals. It is a journey that never ends. I will be their mom forever. Very often we have to make up the manual ourselves as we go along.