Parent And Child

[poliphilo]

 This should have been posted yesterday so it's out of sequence. I was too embroiled in an exchange of missives/missiles to remember to transfer it over from LJ......

Parent and adult child- that's such a difficult relationship. 

They may not even like one another but.....

.....The parent wants to control the child, the child wants to control the parent. 

Each finds it hard to accept that the other may have different values. Neither can quite accept that the other is a separate person on a separate life path.

 Parent says, "You're an actor in my play". Child says," No I ain't, you're an actor in mine."

Why must they carry on pushing and pulling until something breaks?

Comments

[cmcmck]

Because in my case, something HAD to break- otherwise I wouldn't be here.

[poliphilo]

Even in a less life and death situation a clean break can be the better option.

[paserbyp]

Why must they carry on pushing and pulling until something breaks?

Because how it works and otherwise it doesn’t works at all, unfortunately…