Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
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I've seen it. In my experience it's always the children of liberals, that and living with their parents well into their twenties, drugged up on antidepressants, ADHD meds and the like. I just can't wrap my mind around that mindset. We were all chomping at the bit to get our driver's licenses and clunker cars at sixteen years old and were out of the house in our own apartments asap after eighteen.
I suppose when one has been coddled all through their formative years it's hard to stand up and take responsibility for your own life. Sad, for the youth.
well said my friend,i started working at 14 in my uncles produce stand ,picked up the hardees parking lot then started in a BBQ house kitchen before i even got my drivers license,had my mom take me everywhere that was to far for my bike to go ,you can bet your ass i was ready to get my learners permit at 15
My son lives with me, he helps maintain the homestead and pays for the internet, half the groceries and utilities, and works with the very disabled man who lives with us, I cannot lift him anymore, so we split the job. He is free to leave, but I would have to rent out his room for another helper, so I can keep the job and care for the goats, fix the fence, haul water when its -20. If he meets someone and wants to marry, she would be welcome too. I'm 73 with all sorts of issues from Lyme, and wear and tear arthritis. He will get the whole deal when I am gone, 4 bedroom house, finished basement, 5 acres and a barn and deep bed organic gardens, 2 acres worth of them, with blueberry and black current bushes, raspberries, and 3 apple trees. There is no shame in this, it's how it was done in the old days. Have you seen what is for rent nowadays? It's a great deal and it works for both of us, and no, he is not coddled . He is the man of the house and he is looking after his old lady mama, he is free, he likes it here. I told him he is welcome to fix up the basement into his own apartment, but he does not want to be labelled as some dead beat who lives in Moms basement. He is far from a deadbeat.
We're not talking about your demographic at all, anon. This is aimed at the teen and twenty-somethings with no motivation whatsoever to start their own lives without any real reason to stay in their parents' home. These are the kids who spend all day in their bedroom, coming out to eat meals and hardly lift a finger to help their parent(s) around the house.
What your son is doing, what many of us moving close to our parent(s) in their elderly age to help out, myself included, have done is admirable and the right thing to do. I was blessed to have spent so much time with my surviving parent (the other passed too young) at a time when they needed help.
Rest assured, while I'm sure it's a tremendous help to have your son with you at this stage of your life, he's just as happy to be able to be with you, to spend time with you, to help you. For those of us who honor and cherish our parents we recognize and are appreciative of all the time and sacrifices our beloved parents made for us throughout the years. God bless.
No one can afford the insurance now.