Background information from the person that asked this question: I’m 25 years old. I was raised as a member of the middle class. My parents do not come from wealth, and we were not at all wealthy (by Silicon Valley standards) when they were raising me. My parents ended up starting a couple of companies … Read more
If your mom is my mom, then that’s a tough one. If you mean she was right all along as in she’s going to force me to take care of her until she grows old, then I guess she was right all along, as she’s currently sitting on my sofa watching Netflix on an iPad … Read more
On Quora, someone asked: “Why do parents emotionally blackmail their kids? What should one do when faced with such behaviour?” This is how I responded: Your parents sound like my grandma. My grandma has the comparison method built into her. She sees a grandson of a friend of hers going to a great college, so … Read more