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My parents own a gorgeous, huge custom home. It's in the middle of nowhere in Kansas. They have no community. They're in abject low grade depression except for
by k8svet 3y ago
My parents own a gorgeous, huge custom home. It's in the middle of nowhere in Kansas. They have no community. They're in abject low grade depression except for the weeks bookending when they travel. My dad's losing it mentally, and they just languish there.
They love visiting me when I travel. They whine there's nothing to do, no food, no culture near them. They're too cheap to heat or cool the place and again, Kansas, so it's straight up miserable 8 months of the year. It takes an army to clean it. My dad "loves" mowing 7 acres but I know he just views it as a task to get done.
Idk, the older I get the more I realize most people have never seriously sat down and tried to elavulate what they really want, versus what they think they want based on someone else's measure of success.