How do/did you get on with your parents?

I get on with my mum and stepdad fine. Had the usual disagreements when I lived at home but nothing stellar. We've never been "close" as such though, and I would never want to live with either of them again.
 
My parents/sister are like my best mates :)

I just moved back into my mums, and to be honest, we all do our own thing.

Like every Friday after work I do my weeks clothes washing, we all take turns in cooking and cleaning. My sister lives up north but regularly visits with her kid.

I did forget how easy/cheap it is living with parents though! So coming up 24 and currently living back at home...

Unless house prices come down in the next 6 months, I will be over 25 until I move out!

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have always got on well with them. They've taught me a lot, even when I thought I knew better than them. Now, older, we have much more meaningful conversations about stuff, dad especially. He's very very wise, very financially astute, which I'm glad for. They've always provided for me, even when they haven't needed to. So yeah, fine.
 
Generally I get on fine with my Dad, but I'm glad I don't live with him any more. Sometimes when I am staying with him for a day or two it reminds me how difficult it could be, he is a bit of a grumpy old man at times (perhaps understandable as unfortunately we lost both my mum and sister to cancer).

Basically he has quite a harsh tone of voice when something is annoying him, and everything has to be done in a particular way, even mundane chores like hanging up the washing, if it isn't done just right then it feels like he is chastising you.

He is also very fussy about technology, when we got him a PVR as a present it was quite a hardship teaching him to use it, you had to explain every last detail to him, even the stuff that is very intuitive to most people like how to navigate menus and such. He'd get frustrated if he felt I was going through things too quickly and the same goes for computers, he likes everything in a certain way which sometimes then causes issues. For example he has a narrow (5:4) monitor and yet insists of having a favourites bar on the left side of the screen, which effectively shrinks the browser aspect even more. This means that some websites may not really display optimally.

Things like Christmas probably another good example, generally not a happy time of year for us, he gets stressed out easily worrying about getting everything ready and barks out orders. My dream is to one year have Christmas in my own house.

Of course I love him, and generally since moving out 5 years ago things are fine, I've been a lot less stressed in general and it means meeting up with him is a pleasure rather than worrying about getting 'told off' for something.
 
Incredibly well, but that's not to say I could deal with living with my Mum any more :p My Dad basically shaped who I am, and though he died last year, I'll never forget his influence. They were both always generous, understanding and..er, tolerant, and I appreciate how incredibly lucky I've been. My Mum's visiting me at the moment, but I do find it a bit stifling having someone around constantly when I've spent the last 3 months mostly on my own.
 
Get on with my dad so well. He is great and helps me out so much. Don't know where I would be without him (I got to start being independent). Since I am his youngest child I still think he likes to help me out as if I am 13 because he knows his life will get a whole lot more lonely after I leave. My Mum is a nutcase, don't like her, don't talk to her. She been in and out of a mental hospital a few times so I think I will just stick with my dad.
 
Did anybody see Dynamo last night?

My girlfriend can't wait to move out of her parents place, she was watching Dynamo last night and when he did that bit about the PIN number (I didn't see it, just going on what she told me)

Anyway, read on...

Her dad: I don't agree with that
My girlfriend: with what?
Her dad: giving out his pin number on tv
My girlfriend: Dad it won't be his real number

then what follows is a long argument about how stupid her dad is (and he is)

He is a complete idiot, he can't even use Sky+ properly and he refuses to learn how to use a PC, he thinks that by using the internet people will be able to steal all their money.

So in summary, she wants to move out as soon as possible so we don't have to watch football 24/7 (her family are obsessed with it)
and we can stay up as late as we want (my parents go to bed at 10:30)

Just tryin to save up enough money to get a morgage
 
I got on with (still do) get on with my folks pretty well but my mother can be shall I say... unstable at times. She's not exactly getting on with my Dad at the mo but I still get on well with them seperate, since I moved out I find that I get on with them better.

She used to argue with me about the most petty things which was one of the main reasons I moved out, right before I did we had a blazing row and she gave me the 'you have one month speech, so I called it and moved out :-)
 
I get on really well with my mum, and frankly I think if it were up to her, I'd never be allowed to move away.

As for my dad, I don't honestly know that well. He's always been hard to read emotionally, but I do some days get the feeling he tolerates me being here because he has to, while on others he's genuinely glad to see me. Ah well.
 
When my mum was alive we struggled to get along unfortunately, probably due to being so alike to one another. With my dad swings and roundabouts really. I would say we have a much better relationship than we had a few years ago, sometimes we wouldn't talk for years due to stubbornness from both of us.
 
Not so well with my dad, but well with my mum. Saying that, I still can't wait to move out of my mum's.

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I get on with both of my parents fine. Since moving out and my mum and dad splitting up, I've found that I get along with my dad much better than I ever had previously as we never really spoke at home and there's nobody to try and influence me against him now.
 
old man, get one with but we are hardly close.

Mum, get on well while i am single. Then she turns into a jelous super bitch :(
 
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