You know, for all the problems I had with my mother

[conuly]

I still sometimes see something terrible that people consider just normal for American parents of that generation and I wonder how everybody else got so unlucky.

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[silveradept]

Happy families are all alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in their own way?

Although it sounds like, from this bafflement, that many unhappy families were unhappy in similar ways.

[conuly]

Well, at least we can say that my mother's somewhat haphazard parenting with occasional moments of sheer fucked-upedness wasn't boring.