At what age did you completely lose respect for your parents?

My parents are really, really annoying. But I think this rant might be more to do with the fact that I am mad at them right now, until further notice. With hope they will mellow out by the time I have kids.

 

sort of in the same boat, here. i haven't lost ALL respect for my parents, but it's definitely tempered by an understanding of their limitations and the fact that i live FAR FAR AWAY.

 

hmmm... I was.. 7.. 8.. for my mother. She let a 21 year old man move in with my 13 year old sister, let them share a bed, and when he beat her, she would tell my sister that she probably deserved it. She took "rent" money from him, which was basically whoring my sister out. When my aunt told her to get rid of him or she would call cps, we moved. She almost let him take her back to mexico if it wasnt because the school found out and threatened my mom, she would have let him.
I never knew my father, I dont even remember him, but I know he used to beat my mother, and sure, she probably deserved it for being such a ****, but He never had my respect.

 

I lost respect for them when I was about 16.. Then when I hit around 30 it all came back.. I grew up and found out what life was all about. Everything I blamed on them was really my fault.

Peace

 

:iagree: Me too Silverhippy eace:

 

Oh god, that is soo true for me.

As a teen there were moments of losing respect for them- teenage bitterness, rebellion and hormones , I guess. OH and It was definitely much easier to get along with them once I moved out, that is for sure.
...and actually , as teens I remember my other siblings going through that phase of having no respect for our folks, and talking back- my younger sis doing all but coming to actual blows with Dad,
- I still don't know how she got away with it, not me though, i was chicken shit and always knew they wouldn't hesitate to bitch slap me if I acted like that.
Weirdo double standard or something.

Anyway, yeah. I am the good kid-I respect my parents in a lot of ways.Much more as I get older,Much more than I did as a teen, or while sharing a home with them.Plus once i had a kid of my own I felt I had a lot more respect for them.

The same cannot be said for hubby respecting his parents more with those same changes,and years passing...but that is a whole other story.

 

i never really respected my parents as a kid. they were wayyy too strict and didnt really let me do "normal" teenage things so when i turned 18 i kinda went party crazy and did a lot of stupid things. when i got knocked up (not even a year later) i kinda gained a lot back just because being pregnant brought me a lot closer to my mom and made me grow up a lot. recently my dad has admitted that a lot of things i did were a result of them being the way they were. it was a half-assed apology but still worth a lot

 

I dislike the word 'respect'.

Mom's cool, Dad's a shallow hypocrite.

 

I am blessed to have the parents I have. After nearly 15 years I still miss my dad.

 

i love my parents completely, and treat them well, respectfully. but my parents are damaged goods.

 

I progressively lost more respect for mine at the ages of 5 , 12 , 18 , 22 and 25.Really they wanted to brainwash me into becoming a nice middle class doctor.Never supported me for anything else.But whatever ... only an idiot argues all day with another idiot...
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Actually my father didnt speak to my grandmother for 20 odd years.
After she snuffed it , turned out there were *alot* of misunderstandings.
Maybe *most* can things can be resolved with communication...?

 

I still completely respect my parents, and always will.

 

Well said. Same here.

 

i'm in high school and i've always respected my parents, i try to give them the same respect they give me.

of course there are always pet peeves, but that's way different.

 

While we had very different opinions about life in general and often argued about it, I never lost respect for my parents. They did fairly well for themselves, despite their lack of a formal education beyond grade school level. They provided me and my sisters with everything we needed while we were young.

So, yeah...my parents kicked ass. I appreciate them more and more the older I get.

 

I respect my parents.

 

Whatever age I got beaten with flashlights and chased around with knives. 8 or so.

 

Outside of a fat paycheck my parents are weird as fuck.. Specially as of the last 5 or so years. Both have became very materialistic and fake. Mid life crisis maybe?

Me and the brother always had what we wanted, and still do if needed. But, a lot of times anymore I could give a fuck less about money from them.. They think that fixes everything . If that makes any sense.

Not to mention they are big hypocrites in a lot of ways.

Do I respect them? I try, but they make it very hard to gain that respect.

Kinda reminds me of the parents in "into the wild", if anybody seen that movie.

 

I love that movie.

 

Ha, I love your posts!

I don't see how a peace symbol could reduce someones credibility, if someone believes that they're a dumbass. xD