It was fairly normal.
My parents are both engineers and always worked full time demanding jobs so they were busy people but we did a lot of family activities, travelled a lot, did a lot of enrichment things and cultural activities like museums and theaters and do art or play music, we had huge collection of books and of course records!
My dad is a rather difficult person, both I and my brother think he has some narcissistic tendencies and mom put up with this flaws, although he mellowed down with age. But compare to others I’d say it wasn’t bad. My parents valued education and we were given freedom to choose education and career path. I think we were given lots of freedom in comparison because I don’t remember anything I wasn’t allowed to do, my parents didn’t watch my every step.
Me and my brother are one year apart (I am older) and we are very close. We both left home pretty much right after high school and pursued education and careers etc and we both married young and had children young but we always lived in relatively close proximity to each other and our parents.
Our mom died last year after long battle with cancer and dad is getting old so that’s all we really have (and our own kids) so we stick together
Talking about craziness my dad decided to clean his gutters yesterday and sent us a proud picture of himself on a ladder! We all live 15 minutes from each other and there is zero need to climb on ladders at 82 even if he is in good shape. But like I said he is a bit crazy. He also wore a mask just to be funny. Lol
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