We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.
I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.
Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life. We'd go and stay for a few weeks with Dad on tour and bring a tutor with us.
We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.
About age ten, we moved from the place where I was born, moved overseas.
I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family.
Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In that way, it wasn't a normal family life.
You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
Unfortunately, I'm more experienced than I care to admit on long-distance relationships. Just because that is my life. I travel because I love to. As a result, I have to sort of make it work when a relationship kind of comes into view.
Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.