Do you feel that you have made your parents proud?

I know my Dad is but I know my Mum isn't.

She wanted me to go to College and Uni and study study study...my brain is 'wasted' as far as shes concerned.

I took the more 'No I want to do this for a living, so I do' approach, Dads proud of me for doing what I enjoy and slowly but surely making a living out of it....Mum thinks I could've been so much more, cheers mum :)
 
Nope, until I am settled down with a couple of kids in my Mums eyes I haven't achieved what she wants me to have. I used to get down about it, but then I realised its her issue and not mine.

My younger sister who recently got married, has bought her own house and is planning on starting a family soon "means" a lot more in her eyes.

She just doesnt seem to realise that what she wants for me, and what I want for me aren't necessarily the same thing.
 
Yes - my parents are proud of me. My dad has always been really proud of me for my exam results and degree (even though they're fairly "average" amongst my peers) but as he left school without many qualifications he admires it.

I think my mum is more proud of me for who I am and how I act as a person. I'm quite similar to my mum in terms of personality and temperament.

I know they've both always been happy to talk about me to their friends and colleagues etc.
 
I'd be the first in my family to earn a degree if I manage to complete it, so mabye that would a bit.

As an earlier post said though, many parents have the "so long as you're happy" approach and that's something far more difficult as I never really have been or ever expect to be.
 
Yes. They told me.

Coming from a background in manual labour I have been the first on my dad's side to go to University. I have a job with a big four accounting firm. I've never done drugs or been in trouble with the police. Been travelling around the world.

Don't think I've done too bad.

They're just as proud of my brother who has done what he really, really wanted to do in life and join the RAF. He loves his job so they're very happy for him. He worked his arse off to get what he has too.
 
No idea, never spent a single second thinking about it over my 30 years alive. I've done well but differently than they would've like me to. My dad wanted me in mechanical engineering, I went civils, they wanted me to buy a house close to them, I bought abroad. They wanted a nice English Rose for me, I went foreign. However, I've done ok so far and won't change it to make anyone 'proud'.
 
For the most part, I hope so. There's a sore sticking point that I'm adamant I will never have children, and this rankles with my father.
 
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