"My parents were quite a team."
Mine were, too. Though that ended once we girls were grown and off to college and careers and families of our own. Then Mom hit the bricks, trying to "find herself" and recapture the youth she "sacrificed" for us. (She actually SAID that to me when I became a mother; "Don't sacrifice yourself to your kids the way I did for you.")
Granted, this was in the late 70's when the NOW hags were in full swing. She's really done a number on her Grandkids, though she has tried to make up for lost time in the past few years. Too little, too late, IMHO. You're either IN their lives, or you're OUT.
Sadly, my own Mom was one of the first to race from the gate the moment the Women's Movement made it OK to do so.
And now what do we have? A generation of kids with all of the problems described above! Way to go Libbers! Thanks for everything! /sarcasm
Did she stay home and raise you and your sisters?