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Do adult children owe their parents lives after taking care of them for 18 years?

I feel like we do owe it to them because they took care of us, spend a LOT of money on us, fed us, clothed us, took us to doctors appointments, put us in school and everything so we DO owe them. If my parents need help or need some money I’ll be gladly to do it because they took care of my sister and I so we owe them for that but we don’t owe them EVERYTHING.

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Keraunos · 36-40, M

If you come to feel that way about them, it will at bottom be for reasons other than the more utilitarian ones you've spelled out. If those are the [i]only[/i] reasons you can think of for a feeling of gratitude toward them, then somewhere inside, you probably already know how you really feel about this.

TotallyValleyGirl · F

@Keraunos You mean like if they take advantage of me? Then hell NO! I will not let that happen!