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I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.

There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.

I think my parents had a hard time dealing with me.

All parents experience the same problems.

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

I love my parents very much, but people either continue or break the patterns of what their life should be and I just want to completely break whatever patterns would lead me to the same life choices that they made.

There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.

My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.