Adult Kids

Today's kids when they leave home seem to think they are too busy to spend any time at all with their parents. Their parents gave up anywhere from 18 years of their lives or more for them, but they forget their parents once they move out on their own. They think they have to find themselves so don't want their parents as a part of their life.

I never thought my girls would decide they didn't want to have much to do with me once they became of age. But it has happened. I just have to let them go and get on with my life.

Yet they also think that their parents shouldn't have a life. My husband and I went to Mountain Home, Ar. one weekend. My daughter called me and wanted me to go check on her spouse and kids as no one was answering phone.

She actually got mad because we weren't at home. She also was in Mountain Home, Ar with a girlfriend. She had to turn around and come back home because her partner has heart problems and she was worried. But before doing, that she was irritated with me because I wasn't at home.

This weekend, my husband and I went to West Plains, Mo. and she wanted to know what we had to go there for. I think that was our business. I have to call her and see if she is home before I can go over and now even have to ask if it is okay.

I told her she knows where I live if she wants to see me and have decided to stay away for awhile. Have I seen her? NO. Does she call me? Yes, only when she wants something. But I am expected to call her everyday or something is wrong. I've held back on that lately too.

I'm glad I've been independent most all my life. I raised my girls to take care of themselves and I just let go. Nothing more can I do but pray for them.