Posted on 10/12/2016 6:30:45 AM PDT by pabianice
I still sleep in my parents’ bed. Beside them. At night. And I’m 20-years-old. Let me put that into context.
My parents are getting old. It pains me, but this is a fact. And whether or not I try to convince myself otherwise, one day I will be without them, assuming I’ll live longer than they do. I will not be able to see my mother’s face, or hear my father’s voice, I will not be able to physically go to them for support, or guidance or love.
This simple reality deeply pains me. And for this reason, I sleep beside them. I sleep amongst their bodies that rise and fall as mine does with each breath we take, and I hold on to this simple action that makes me feel as if we will be united forever. I try my hardest to remember them in their stillness, the patterns of their breath, their facial features and body shapes in such peaceful and innocent bliss. By sleeping beside them, I desperately hold on to how alive we all are in that moment, because I know that one day they will be nothing but a distant memory.
The second reason I sleep alongside my parents is to preserve my youth.
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That is sort of sick.
You forgot the “(BARF ALERT)” warning.
...I feel sick.
Oh, for goodness’ sake ... sugarplum snowflake fairies ...
I threw up in my mouth a little.
This woman needs professional help.
What?
Creepy.
Go sleep in your own bed in your own house, adult kid.
I could not finish this one. This is just too weird.
Just WOW. By the time I was twenty, my mother was dead-and-gone and my dad was off in the mountains escaping. Others had far worse situations than that. I did just fine. Had no choice ...
Our Nanny society really does cripple these poor little things, doesn’t it?
The whole time the parents are thinking, “Aren’t we EVER going to get rid of this leech???”
Lotta college kids like this now.
Makes you wonder what else is going on with these kids.
This is just outright creepy in a Norman Bates sort of way.
The author appears to be dot-Indian. Culturally I think this behavior is not unusual for Indians. In many cultures families sleep together.
In the author’s defense, he/she appears (from the name) to be Hindu. In India, it is far more common for families to share a common bed (space constraints, if nothing else), and for kids to continue to sleep alongside parents to a far older age than here in the US.
Weird.
5.56mm
vomit
I can relate to the realty of losing ones parents and that emotion, but not the action that manifested. Being grateful, loving your parents & spending time with them is one thing. Sleeping with them as a young adult is emotionally immature & unhealthy.
Reveals that the parents failed to raise their child to become an emotional adult. Leaving behind a weak dependent & vulnerable individual who will not live a successful adult life.
Again, you have to factor in the culture. In India (and a number of other modern cultures, really), this kind of thing is far more common. For all that the US is (or was, anyway) a paragon of civilization, we do have some odd hangups.
and a boyfriend.
It sounds like a vampire book
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