My father is going to India for three weeks. His last trip was to Spain; the time before that, he spent ten days in Morocco. He goes there yearly. …
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Our Relationships with Our Aging Parents
As our parents get older and we find ourselves part of the sandwich generation, it's important to understand how our relationship with our parents impacts us and our families. Read on for stories from all ends of the parental relationship spectrum.
Not quite two years ago, our dad succumbed to cancer and passed away. Or, as I like to think about it, he’d written his story and reached the maximum …
My mother and I don’t have a good relationship. We haven’t since I was a teenager, and at forty-eight, I’m well aware that isn’t going to change. I …
The summer before I turned 13, my mother dumped a macaroni-and-cheese casserole in my lap. Sizzling hot from the oven, it left an angry red mark in …
The words hung in the air between us, piercing my heart and demolishing what was left of our difficult relationship. After a particularly contentious …
I steadied my father’s hand on a fork to slowly lift a bite of potato. At that same oak table, he sat in his designated head-of-the-table chair and …
