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[novapsyche]

When you think of your parents, what's the first word that comes to mind?

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[sttatus-quo.livejournal.com]

Lonely.

My initial reaction was a lump in my stomach for their sake. Then I realized how lonely they both seemed most of the time. I think that there was certainly a platonic affection left, though, that was deep and abiding.

Unscreen if you wish.

"Inconthievable!"

[the-leewit.livejournal.com]

(That is: "You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.")

Honestly, when you said, "parents," (plural), the first thing I thought of was "no longer a unit."

And the actual word that comes to mind... it's weird, but I don't mean that word at all. For my mother, I think, "tall," but in this case, it's in the sense of "formidable, but not in a forbidding way; accomplished." What the hey? What do you mean, M-W doesn't list that as a definition! Get a better dictionary! And my father makes me think, "wombat," which, to borrow a page from Lemony Snicket's book, here means, "friendly, strong, cute, rotund, rather awesome, and rarely seen 'round these here parts." Shrugs.

Okay to unscreen, although why you'd want to...

[the-leewit.livejournal.com]

I would be curious as to what words you think of, and why you ask?

[atdt1991.livejournal.com]

Honesty counts? Do I get points! Poppa needs a new pair of shoelaces!

The first word that comes to mind is "broken". It takes a few seconds to come up with one, because they were divorced long before I can remember. I never group them together.

And of course you can unscreen.

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

One.

Which doesn't make sense, because they're separated, with good reason. But there it is.

[eposia.livejournal.com]

Parents = love.

individually,
Dad = stressed
Mom = strong

There were, of course, many other words close on the heels of those first ones. unscreening is fine.

[jennkitty.livejournal.com]

seeking.

I feel like now that we kids have moved out, now that they're past 60, now that they consider a date night a treat, a break from helping raise their grandkids..... i feel they are finally becoming the people, and the couple, i wish they'd been in my childhood. they still drive each other nuts, but they acknowledge that they're a bit off, and that they screwed us up pretty good, and that they are a work in progress.

i can't ever be mad at them for the past, because i am proud of their efforts in the present.

unscreen if you wish.

unscreen away

[chai-tease.livejournal.com]

simple
being home visiting them reminds me how naive my mother is and how laid back (and retired) my dad is. he is happy riding his lawn mower aorund their land, she is happy sorting her photo albums and asking us "what is a dildo?"