I Love My Parents

My father will be 75 this year. I feel closer to him even if I love him and my mother the same. I see him decaying in the last months. It is getting harder for him to walk long distances. His memory is getting much worse. And probably as a consequence of this, his mood is much worse too. He is too closed in himself. He does not realise my mother has needs too. Every time I go visit them I can feel the tense atmosphere and listen to their mutual recriminations.

I cannot take sides. Both of them are right in their complaints, but as their son it is hard to see how they just focus on each other's negative traits.