Parents convinced that an adult child won't grow up or has failed to launch may find that quarantine is only worsening the situation. These strategies can reduce the tension.
. The woman behind me started a conversation about paper towels that segued into a mini-rant about her adult son, who lived with them, and how she’d come to the store to get him what he’d asked for. She didn’t want to come to Costco but he needed the closet organizers and the backpack in the catalog, but the latter item she couldn’t find in the store. Another customer overheard and pointed. There it was. The woman shrugged. “I’m not getting it. Too bad for him.
“He’s always asking me for things,” she said, speaking directly to my back now. I turned so as not to be rude. Despite her perfectly applied makeup, she looked not so much tired from lack of sleep but the kind of tired people with resentment often show: harried, distant, pleading, bitter.I nodded but inside was overcome with the thought—and I’m not proud of this—who would want to do anything for you? You’re like a walking premeditated-resentment factory.
I knew on an instinctual level that, deep down, she was also a grudge holder, full of resentment. I was not the cause but the trigger to make her spew, but DANG! I felt that icky blanket of her toxicity. This much I know—as uncomfortable as it was for me, it is worse for her, her adult son and people close to that situation.
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