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| Should you feel obligated to support your parents? |
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Morutea
Joined: 21 Oct 2006
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 Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:18 am Post subject: My parents |
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Hello all,
It is my first post 
I want your thoughts on this:
Do you feel that because your parents may have supported you when you were younger, that you "owe" it to them to support them now?
(Pay the bills they run up etc, just because they did it for you when you were younger and unable to work)
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liljana
Joined: 12 May 2006
Posts: 69
Location: Bitola, Macedonia
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Parents are the most precious persons one can ever have in live. Calculations ?! You should be happy if it only takes your money to make their live easier. |
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solidred
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Posts: 623
Location: Scotland
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| Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:40 am Post subject: |
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The beautiful thing about beautiful parents is that their love is unconditional.
Parents who view their choosing to have children as a route into some sort of 'quid pro quo' financial transaction ought to revise their expectations.
My parents have always loved and supported me just because I'm me. I have always loved them the same way, not out of duty or fairness but just because that's the way it is.
Parents expecting to get their bills paid by morally blackmailing their offspring is centuries old, of course. Which doesn't make it right.
In most cases, I guess, the situation is more complex. There probably is an undercurrent of unconditional love in there. Just don't confuse the two. It's probably complicated enough without adding guilt into the mix.  |
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