12 Things You Do That Make Your Kids Want To Never Speak With You Again
8. You make them feel like a burden
If you are a parent, you probably on some level dread the moment your kids grow up and sail away into the endless and enticing oceans of adulthood. Deep inside, though, you do hope that they will remember you and come back to visit. You expect to remain in their lives, be informed on their decisions, and kept apprised of the intimate personal details related to their families’ affairs.
Now, imagine that exactly the opposite happens.
Imagine your adult children want nothing to do with you. They move away to a different part of the city, state, or even country and rarely come to visit, if at all. Even phone conversations are infrequent and tense, and you sense the subtle inflections of irritation in their voice on the occasion that these calls do happen. It feels like your children would rather not talk to you but do it out of obligation because you called. The conversation never goes beyond the cordial formalities and high-level, routine updates. You try to learn more details, but the more questions you ask, the more perceptible the irritation on the other end of the phone becomes; it travels hundreds of miles through the telephone networks and pierces you straight in the heart.
