>>11619309>the majority don't want to be parentssad, but true. Unfortunately when it came to boomers, they were handed the cushiest economy in the history of the world on a silver platter, so a lot of them married their high school sweetheart without a second thought and started pumping out kids—many of which grew up to be maladjusted millennials raised by sociopathic parents who hated each other as soon as the honeymoon was over.
>They want their genetic legacy and to have someone to look after them in their old age, but they don't want to put in any of the work.The older I get and the more I started to see my mom and dad as people instead of parents, the more I was able to identify this logic behind all of their behaviors. It's fairly depressing. You know how they say "never meet your heroes"? Meeting your parents can be a thousand times worse.
