How old were you when you realized your parents weren't perfect, and how old where you when you started to see things from their point of view?
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MiMI
ANSWERS: 12
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I realized that my parents weren't perfect at a very young age, about 6 or 7. Because I could see, on occassions, that they had (relatively) normal problems between themselves, other relatives and friends that were just left unanswered. Maybe they needed answerbag! lol. I feel that I first started to see their point of view not long after those days, because I realized that it's virtually impossible to get some people to agree with you, even if you have their best interest at heart. I guess that that's just life! The saga continues, huh? :)
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I've always known "dad" wasn't perfect. He was physically abusive to me and my mom. More to my mom. He only hit me maybe once or twice. And I don't remember those times because I was too little. Now he's just verbally abusive. Thank God I don't have to see him. I reallized my mom wasn't perfect when I was about ten. And that was because she kept on going back to my "dad". Wasn't her fault though. But, around the age of thirteen it finally sunk in. She always did say that I was the only good thing that ever came from him. Random comment of the week: And that's what I have to say about monkeys.
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I realized it at an early age. Not sure how old I was but all I knew was that I wanted my uncle to be my father. As I grew older, I find myself very different from my father but similar in the work ethic aspect. Point of view... we still differ from time to time.
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Maybe 10 or so? I can't really say with any accuracy. Now at the age of *muttermutter* I still don't see much from their point of view.
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i was about 5 when i realized my parents weren't perfect. i'm 24 & i still don't see my parents' point of view. i hope i never do.
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at six I wondered why my mom would marry my dad. 10, why would dad marry mom? I see things from my point o view (18)
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I guess I'm pretty dense, because it took me well into my teens before I saw they weren't perfect. My parents drank but mostly responsibly. (never lost a job) My mom has the personality to "make everything ok". So even when dad was away alot (too much) during our childhood, she kept us from seeing it wasn't so good. By the time I was 25, they were divorced and both remarried. A while after that I started seeing it from their point of view. My dad now regrets cheating on mom and leaving her, but of course it's way too late.
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Maybe around 8 or nine although I knew things were wrong in my family before then. I have never and will never see things from their point of view. I understand their point of view, I just disagree with it.
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I think 15 seconds after I opened my eyes I started screaming my head off because I KNEW someone made a horrible mistake and I got them instead of my real parents. I was like NO...Oh Shit! Waaaaaaaah.... *never piss off the angel in charge of mergers and aquisitions.
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What do you mean "my parents aren't perfect"?
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19,and losing more respect as time goes by.:(**+++++*
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When I found out they were getting a divorce. I was around 8 then. Up until that point it never occured to me that my parents might not be perfect. I started to see things from my mom's point of view when I had my first child. Now I have to wonder did she ever turn away so I wouldn't see her trying not to laugh when I threw a minor fit? 'Cause I do that sometimes. It's pretty funny.
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