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how well do you feel you know your parents ?

Nudlz

do you feel you know your parents well ?

Reply 1

Kate.

15

I think I know my parents pretty well. I get on with them both and we never argue or anything. To be fair, they don't make any rules so I have none to break, therefore nothing to argue about ;D They've always been pretty open and I find them easy to talk to. They're divorced too, by the way. I never used to be close to my dad but in the past few years he's got a lot more laid back and now I can talk to him much more.

Reply 2

cpj1987

15

I've never met my real Dad, and don't get on with my Stepdad; I can't remember the last time I spoke to him - so I think it's safe to say I don't know him at all.
I never used to know my Mum either until I moved out last year. When I went to visit a few months ago, she told me all about her childhood, secrets she'd hid from me all her life, things about her past, and things about how her life is now that she'd never revealed before - so I believe I know her pretty well now. Weird that I didn't for 19 years though.

Reply 3

xatm092

I know my parents... being a Chrisitan family really helps that I think.

Reply 4

aeiou81

10

I think I know them pretty well; we're very close as a family and very open with each other. I argue more with my mum than my dad, but I think I know them both well.

Reply 5

Crystaltears

12

I know my Mum very well.

I know my Dad alot better than I used to. He tells me more stories than my Mum does, but I don't really know him as a person because he's very private.

Reply 6

Innuendo_anonymous

I'd say i dont know them very well at all really. Mainly because there one HUGE pain in the ass almost all of the time. They do nice stuff for me and such but it feels like they just want to buy my love in a way.

The problem is all that love disappears when they start raging and raging about the smallest things in the world. Such as not turning off the pc at the plug; last night my mom comes into my room at like 1 in the morning shouting and raving that the plugs were not turned off and it was just like "wtf are you doing", didnt say that though. Just little things like that piss me off so much lol.

So to answer your question, no. I dont know them and i dont want to get to know them. The only things i do know really, is that my mom is an old fashioned pain in the ass and my dad gets drunk every other night and thinks he knows everything lol. Cant wait to move out in one year wOOt :smile:

Sorry if it deviated from the question a bit, just felt like getting it off my chest haha.

Reply 7

louisedotcom

13

I dont think I know my parents particually well. I know very little about either of their pasts, what they got up to, things they had done or experienced, places they have been etc.
I 've never asked them about it and to be honest I dont have much of a desire to know. The most I know about them individually is where they grew up I think, and as a couple as far as I know they met at school.
To be fair they had me when they were 18 & 19, and as such probably never really had a chance to live so perhaps they dont have much to tell.

Reply 8

randomgirl

14

I know them quite well, I think. Or like to think anyway.

Reply 9

AverageGuyOnTheStreet

9

It's as though I hardly know mine, but then they hardly know me so that I see as a good thing. I have very little in common with my parents so I guess if I knew them better then we would have even more arguements.

Reply 10

ForumFreak

9

I think I know my parents very well and thats a good thing.

Reply 11

airyfairy

I'd like to think I know my Mum quite well but in reality I probably don't and my Dad moved out when I was about 15 and now works in India and we don't really talk. My brother knows him much better than I do. I wish I knew them better though.

Reply 12

capitalP

however you know them, youll know them exponentially better each year you live.

respect.

Reply 13

Rainygal

4

i think I know them quite well, my mum better than my dad but that's just because he doesn't really talk about when he was younger etc whereas my mum does

Reply 14

Nudlz

OP

AverageGuyOnTheStreet

It's as though I hardly know mine, but then they hardly know me so that I see as a good thing. I have very little in common with my parents so I guess if I knew them better then we would have even more arguements.

i feel the same apart from when we get arguing it kicks off and all hell breaks loose

Reply 15

Alexii

12

Not well at all, I only found out the other day that my dad went to Public School and I'm 19, was a real shock.

Reply 16

coloursonthetv

1

xatm092

I know my parents.

If a parent is a good parent and if the child is clever enough to realise that they can get along (as long as the former statement is in play) then a families religion, ethnic background and whether the family is a stereotypical family; Mum, Dad, kids, pets, happy sunshine and colgate smiles has nothing to do with whether you get along/know them well or not.

I know my parents quite well because I bother to ask.

Reply 17

Quinion

10

I know them pretty well insofar as they're both quite predictable people generally. I'm not particularly open with them because I'm not really interested in telling them exactly what I'm up to, I reckon I'd probably know more about them if I was more open, but I'm not fussed so I'm content to keep things the way they are.

Reply 18

Yellowmarshmellow

I don't know much about their childhood apart from the odd random funny story they tell, i know their personalities and tendencies well now though ie when to avoid them and how they would react to situations.

Reply 19

Rennie

1

I don't know. I think I know them very well now.. and I always knew what they were like and all about their pasts etc.

However, a year and a half ago my mum decided she was going to leave my dad and when I was with her and she told someone she knew she said 'we hadn't been happy for at least 10 years'. I felt then that I didn't know her that well at all as that meant she'd lied about being happy with my dad and about how they were a great couple for most of my life. Or maybe she'd just decided that in hindsight. I'm not sure.

I don't see my mum that often now but she still calls a lot and she tells me everything about her life. I think I know my dad quite well too... we talk about stuff a lot. However, he'll be really childish about not wanting to talk to my mum and then say 'Wait until you're older and I'll explain why I am how I am... I'm not going to tell you now, it's not fair'. I suppose she did something to him that he won't forgive. Either way, I feel that's something I'm missing.

On the reverse side my dad knows me pretty well (obviously he doesn't know everything about me) but my mum doesn't really know me at all. She'll talk about things and then change the subject saying that I'm this or that and won't be interested but she's always wrong.

Strange.. didn't mean to go off on one...

how well do you feel you know your parents ?

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