Hello everyone, just seeking some advice, thank you in advance!
I am in my mid 20's, growing up practically an only child (have sisters from my mom's side but they left the house at an early age). My parents have always been quite overly protective with me as a child,
teenager etc..especially my dad, me being his only daughter. I have always tried to please my parents so I never gave them a hard time, was well behaved.
At the age of 21 I met someone, and throughout time we moved in together. We first lived with my parents, then with his parents and finally in the end we moved to New Jersey where my fiance grew up to start our
lives.. It was hard enough me moving out of my parents house, and now I was going to live hours away from them. My parents live in Georgia. Things were going well for my fiance and I in NJ. We were finally
living alone, trying out a brand new area and exploring life.
To cut the story short, my parents ended up moving all the way from Georgia to NJ in with us. Their plans was to live with us for a while until they find a job and settle in. But, the petty arguments got in the way, and they didn't give NJ much of a try, they judged the area where we were starting off and they have this "my way or no way" mentality, quite old school and just ended up leaving back to Georgia because they were mad at us.
A year has passed and yes we broke the ice over the phone. Even after they disrespected me and my fiance when they left, but we tried to work things out with them.
Now, a year later we moved to a different area in NJ.. some place suburban, very quite, we are exploring and it's going well so far, affordable houses, and we found stable jobs but then again we're still exploring it.
Now, my parents are saying they want to try it out too but they admitted it's mainly because they feel lonely. My parents found out they have a family member about an hour away from where we live now,and even they offered my parents want to stay they can crash in. But, they prefer doing it with us.. me. And since I went to visit them about a few weeks ago, they felt nostalgic. They're doing fine in Georgia, they have good jobs, their own stuff, car etc. The only problem is that the area they live at is quite expensive so they cannot afford a house just yet, and also they feel lonely.
I am worried that because they left so fast last time, they didn't get to experience the cold weather etc. They are quite desperate people and I told them, think about it very well, they said themselves once that they don't like cold weather. But now they're changing the subject saying they don't mind, but they don't even know what 10 degrees feels like. And they felt I said that so they won't come. ALSO, honestly.. I don't feel safe telling them to come just yet, we JUST moved here. We are still exploring it, we're not 100% stable,
we don't know if we will still be here 2 years from now. And they're argument is, that if they come it will be next year not now.. and that they don't plan on staying with us too long just until they get settled.
But how can you say that? What if you don't find a job? What if we decide we want to move some place else? Now.. they're not talking to me.. they feel im betraying them, they're even saying things like,
"oh if it were your fiance's mom then you wouldn't mind, huh? .. "how can you treat your parents like this".. etc.
I am so stressed out because I love them,want them to be happy I would love for us all to leave near by, I am planning on having kids some day and would prefer not have to take a plane to visit them
but they don't understand that things happen with time.. they're so desperate and that's why things didn't work out last time. My parents live in Georgia but they don't really have anyone there other than my sister
but my sister rarely ever visits, and it's because of their way of being. They don't realize how they push people away from them. The minute they feel unhappy they want to move or stop talking to us. And I am trying so hard to keep the peace but it's so hard with them.
Last edited by Melodysmooth; Apr 05, 2016 at 10:56 AM.
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