Many thanks. I've needed a couple of rants here today already and, of course, some of it has spilled over on this forum. A cry and a sleep should do it. Plus we can stretch to a takeaway later on.
State pension age is still a few years off for me but workwise my setup is better than it's ever been (self employed). It is the role of parent/carer that leaves me feeling eroded, especially against a more general cultural background in which flying the nest is an assumption.
Plus some of this has been triggered by us sorting out our wills - in as much as this can be done without knowing what our own future care needs might be and what our adult offspring will need in the coming years - and accidentally coming a cross an article about parental disappointment and family conflict at young adults returning or remaining in the parental home due to the economic crisis. I'm feeling that, well, within our family flying the nest is impossible irrespective of the economic background so what are they whinging about!
Poor, poor "norms" and their two-way plight around adult offspring returning or their "depression" over "empty nest syndrome" when they do actually leave!
Ah, the housework has fallen well below most ordinary standards around here. That, at least, we derive a bit of humour from because a lot of housework seems to us to be a waste of life.
