How My Parent's Influenced My Life

I am thirty something years old now, married with one wonderful son of my own and two step-son's. I have a good marriage and a wonderful husband whom I can depend on for almost anything and everything. Who influenced my life?? My Parents.

As children, we often say, I am never going to do that to my kids. I look back and remember telling myself how much I hated my mom for this and hated my dad for that, and I would tell myself, I will never do that to my kids, but guess what..............I do and I would do it again.

I had an unique situation growing up, my parents had a generation gap between them and it caused an even bigger generation gap between us.

My father is twenty years older than my mother in fact, almost twenty-one years older but they have the best marriage I have ever seen and I have to admit I had a lot of friends growing up that their parents had problems and I would always be the one they went to talk to about the problems at home, that would be because my parents didn't have those kinds of problems, they were very good at making things work and they never raised their voice to one another. My parents have a wonderful marriage and they still have that marriage and even though both will tell you that the other isn't perfect they will both tell you that there is no one else in this world that they would rather be with. My friends loved to come over to stay with me and they would always comment on how well my mom and dad did things together and how they talked everything out without arguing. That would usually make me laugh because the truth be told, mom would tell dad the way that she thought it should be and he learned early on that even if he thought she wasn't right, he would never tell her that and would just agree with her and let her find out on her own that she might not be right. They still do things this way, he just says "okay honey, whatever you say" and things just work out with the two of them and always has.