Yeah, I can't really help there. I see my parents maybe once, twice a year. My mother is a complete and utter failure and now lives mostly just to drive up the cost of healthcare by spending weeks at a time in the hospital while on Medicaid, because she partied hard in her 20s and 30s and now that shit is catching up with her. And she's too fucking stupid to take care of herself now. And she's letting the house I grew up in slowly deteriorate (along with her "roommates" and their two little shit-factory dogs), which means she's steadily taking away from the only real source of college fund that her three grandchildren have (my grandfather left me the house but left her a lifetime right to live there, which places its status in limbo until she dies -- my intent is to sell it and split the proceeds to go for college funds for my two kids and my niece).
My father is incredibly successful, having retired from the US Navy with 32 years service at a high rank, with a pension that is more than my salary. Plus he went back to work as a contractor with a major defense consultant firm and makes shittons of money on top of the pension. Dude raises miniature horses for a hobby and sent my half-sister to private college and grad school. Unfortunately, I burned the bridge with him some 20 years ago, and there's still a lot of awkwardness there. He bailed out on us when I was 3, so we've never been particularly close.
And now history repeats itself since I punched my exit ticket from my family nearly two years ago, although I'm trying hard to keep a relationship with my kids. My daughter apparently told the school counselor yesterday that she was sad that I don't live with her.
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