BA> That's because you remember him as he was, not as he is.

 So true...

 My inlaws are both in their 80's now and to me they still look
 the same as they have for oh ten years ...a little grayer etc... but
the real clue is while they're still mentally sharp, physically
they're notably slowing down.
.............................
 BA> Parents do the same thing to some degree with their kids.  Decades ago
 BA> my mother had a lady friend who lived next door with her parents. 
 BA> Every time that lady - who
 BA> was in her thirties - would get a boyfriend that even seemed serious
 BA> her mother would get the vapors.  She moved out from under her
 BA> mother's thumb when she was about 38 (deciding, I guess, that her
 BA> mother's vapors were her mother's problem, not hers)
 BA> and (finally) started a life of her own; dunno if she ever had any
 BA> kids of her own.


That's not about age as much as it is about
domineering/over protectiveness. I'm glad the daughter FINALLY broke
the apron strings (chains).

Cindy

... And now for something completely different.

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