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Squeezed in the middle (as a parent that is) |
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Anonymous Author (September 2006) |
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What to do when your own parents take up so much of your time and concentration that you start neglecting your little children. We recently discovered that my father was having an affair. I have three children, between the ages of 3 months and 6 yrs and I found myself
so absorbed in my parents' crisis that I missed my baby's vaccination appointment and my son's first PTA meeting!
But what can you do when your mother is crying all the time, your father refuses to talk and your end up stuck in the middle!
After a disastrous week for my own family, I decided to start this one differently. - Be firm. When they call you and you know they're about to spend hours on the phone and you know you have to pick up your child from school in exactly 20 minutes and you need to buy nappies in between, you must say "I can't talk right now, I'll call you back later." - Keep perspective.
In the twilight of life, things are bound to start coming off at the seams. Let them decide what is acceptable and what is not. It's their life. The more of it they can resolve together, the better off they'll be. - Learn a lesson. Keep your finger on the pulse of your relationship and be aware of your partner, what they're going through, what's changing in their life.
Never assume that love will be always there, work on it, talk about it and grow and change with each other.
