Why Many Gen Xers Will Be Relieved When Boomer Parents Pass On

The title of this article might seem harsh, but it’s a fact that Gen X grew up with some hard-to-deal-with parents. I’m not saying every family had bad parents but many did.

I had friends who were latchkey kids and their parents worked all the time. Others had parents who drank all day long and didn’t spend time with them.

So when I read this article, it hit a nerve. I realized I was not alone in struggling with Boomer parents.

16 Reasons Gen Xers Are More Relieved Than Anything When Our Parents Die

Here are the 5+ mistakes my parents made that have messed up my life:

Being verbally abusive. Sometimes I don’t get why my parents ever got married in the first place. They were not able to handle being parents and the stress got to them. There was a lot…