Your adult relationship with your parents?

[Ethan Cool]

A few responses in the dink thread got me thinking...

I have a close friend who has a great adult relationship with his dad. We often ski with his pops and I usually smoke him out on the lift. They can "hang out" and seem to have a real friendship. It's something I really regret not having with my own parents. In my moms case I think it really comes down to religious differences. It just seems really hard to have a deep intellectual relationship when our perspectives/truths are so radically different. I love my mom deeply, but we are not "friends". She is always just mom. We accept that we have different beliefs and it doesn't cause tension. It did cause tension when I was young, but we are past that stage. My Dad is an alcoholic, and wasn't really around so that relationship never really got off the ground or mattered to me anyway.

anyway, that's my blog...

[Cyber Cop]

Wow, we are like separated at birth? but still lead the same life? weird...

[tophusmaximus]

in the drinking/partying sense, my parents are chill, im 18 a freshamn in college but living at home, they almost expect me to go to parties/drink but know im responsible about it. adn if i come home hungover they just mess with me.

[booner]

I never felt like I was "friends" with my parents until I was 25 or so. Now I can BS with my mom for hours and I party pretty hard with my dad a few times a year. It took me a while to be comfortable smoking a joint with my dad.