- Joined
- May 27, 2020
Imagine you're Mr. and Mrs. Collins. You've spent a good 20 or so years settled down in a safe but dull town in Virginia, but now your kids are all grown and leaving the house. You decide that now is the perfect time to pack up and live somewhere else and live a more adventurous life, one that more resembled your youth and early adulthood. You get a new house states away from your old one and feel a freedom that you haven't tasted in over two decades.
Then, you hear from your oldest again. He needs a place to crash. What are you meant to do? Deny your firstborn? You let him stay with you. The young man you've known and raised now wears clothing more fit for an elementary school girl. You remain supportive. You're socially liberal. "There's nothing inherently wrong with this," you say to yourselves. He's somehow managed to make a decent income for himself doing things you don't understand on the Internet for the better part of a decade, surely he'll get back on his feet soon, right?
Raise your kids right, or they'll refuse to become adults.
Then, you hear from your oldest again. He needs a place to crash. What are you meant to do? Deny your firstborn? You let him stay with you. The young man you've known and raised now wears clothing more fit for an elementary school girl. You remain supportive. You're socially liberal. "There's nothing inherently wrong with this," you say to yourselves. He's somehow managed to make a decent income for himself doing things you don't understand on the Internet for the better part of a decade, surely he'll get back on his feet soon, right?
Raise your kids right, or they'll refuse to become adults.