I know you probably really aren’t blaming your parents deep inside. Even if you were in a situation when you had to move in with someone, your parents didn’t really make you marry him. Sometimes people temporarily have to stay with someone but they are free to move out eventually or just live together, they aren’t forced to marry just because they have no place to live.
And I don’t think parents can tell their adult children to move or not move in with someone. I don’t think anyone can. Especially if your kids are 47. If kids ask for opinion, it’s ok to give it but when you tell adult children what to do it usually never works. They don’t listen. I know I’d never listen to my parents re dating or moving or marrying and my daughter would never listen to me.
I am just speaking as a parent. At some point kids grow up and make their own life, make their own mistakes and face their own natural consequences. How else would they grow if parents are there to save them to no end? And your parents let you stay living with them for quite awhile. I could see if they let you move in, and then tell you to move out a week later. They probably felt they gave you enough time to stand on your feet. I don’t mean to be cold hearted, you know I have your best interest in heart but I just don’t see how your parents are to blame.
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