• lungdart@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    My parents died when I was young. Seeing other people’s adult relationships with their parents is so foreign to me. My parents are frozen in time in my memories, and I can’t imagine what their lives were really like or what kind of People they were.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Same. My mother died when I was 26. My step mother is now 70, and her mother just died a couple months ago.

      I can’t imagine my mother still being here, and still being here until I’m old.

    • ettyblatant@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      My dad died when I was 9. I didn’t have grandparents or uncles, so never had a relationship with a fatherly figure. I’m a woman in a technical work field, so most older men are either condescending or a little bit too fatherly.

      I admit I am very, very jealous of my friends with dads. I won’t tell them that, though :)