Have you met your parents expectations for you? Will you ever?

Question

well, this was my last question. let's see, i'm at -65.

lol LS. starting over? yes, i have. i can't help myself. she's very sexy! how are you doing? wife doing well?

aww, i'm happy to hear! well, my thoughts are with you and your family. take care of yourself. say hi to your sister when she gets home. don't forget to post the baby pics on your 360. i would love to see them. your going to have a daughter! i'm excited for you! take care of yourself greg.

oh and i know you can ask some pretty good questions!

Answer 1

love the new name. and of course i've met them!

you know who =) hear you been talking to my sister lately


edit. nah i have a few other accounts that are up there in points but i'm being good. this one i just started to use because i had to ask a decent question today. yes even i am capable of asking decent questions. Nope no baby yet. should be here any second now. wife was talking about having pains earlier thinks today might be the day-night.

yeah my sister is all hot to trot when she talks to you. she has a gig somewhere tonight so she's not home. she'lll probably be on late if she even comes home. when she has a gig she either comes home really early (3 am in early in our family..hehe) or sometime when the suns just coming up.

the women in my life i tell ya

Answer 2

I was born being strangled by my own umbilical cord. I was limp, I was blue, I was not breathing.

My parents seemed shattered when I wasn't expected to survive. They changed their expectations, from a new life brought into this world, to a child who may never see, hear, move, smile, eat or even live. I can only imagine how difficult that was for them.

I can honestly say that I've exceeded their expectations...

I lived. I was found to have no physical or mental disabilities due to my unique choice of presention at birth. I was an excellent learner, and typically kept a 4.0gpa. I became a paramedic. I became an educator. I'm working on switching fields into law enforcement. I'm a hardworker, I have a great sense of humor, I have a sense of responsibility. I work hard and I play hard. I consider myself to be a role-model to many younger people.


My parents were told to expect a vegetable instead of an infant child.

I can say that I've exceeded those expectations. I may have my own share of "screw ups", personality quirks, desires that are different from my own parents, choices I make about my life that my parents don't agree with, interests that my parents don't share... but all of that is a hell of a lot better than being a 25 year old vegetable, or worse, not alive.


Maybe my parents want to see me settle down, get married, have some children. Maybe they want me to finish my degree or go for my master's. Maybe they'd like to see me take better care of my finances. All of that pales in contrast to the fundamental part that I'm alive, intact, and intelligent. I could decide tomorrow that I want to shave my head, work in a brothel, live in a nudist camp, and tattoo a snake across my face. They'd still be proud of me... not necessarily of my choices, but that I'm alive and able to make choices.





Its all a matter of perspective.

Answer 3

I believe firmly that most parents expectations are that you learn to live without there support.
Otherwise, a parents expectations are too high. I also think that parents expectations change as we change. When I was in highschool, my father expected me to go to college and become an accountant, and marry someone that made more money that my dad. Didn't happen. And my father's expectations also changed. Now he expects me to be the best mother I can be, and the best wife I can be.
As our lives change, for most parents, so do their expectations.
So yes and no. Will I meet my father's original dream for his baby girl.....NO. But have I let him down, no. I moved out, got a job, then lived my life. Not his...And he is happy that I went my own way.
His only disappointment is when he sees his baby girl unhappy

Answer 4

My parents expectations of me are to become a doctor, marry a good man, do all his cooking and housework. Lmao and we're irish so uhhh NO. I'm working on the doctor part but only losers can fully live up to the goals that their parents have set for them ;)

Answer 5

Since their expectations are getting a bachelor's in something practical, working in an office, marrying someone who simply fits into mainstream society- regardless of who he is inside, or how we feel about each other- having a few children and living in a cookie cutter cul de sac with an easy do housewife haircut, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Nope.

Answer 6

Yes and no. I think for the most part yes, but at the same time it seems like I could never be good enough. Like there is always something better than what I have earned.

Answer 7

A curious insight:
Whilst we forever strive to meet our parents expectations of US, unbeknown, THEY are often seeking to meet ours of them!

Sometime it works, sometimes not.

COMPLETE meeting of expectations is probably best avoided for both parties: what type of controlling/acquiescent relationships would be involved? Restrictive non-growth?

Expectations are goals: directional milestones. Their unrealising is as important as realising in terms of lessons learned, discoveries made and achievements valued.
To maintain value, goals need to constantly change to avoid stagnation.

Failure to meet expectations is necessary -- on a certain scale -- to confer value to conditional parental love/respect/regard for emotional transfer.
If love is forever automatically given - or with-held -- without some criteria, what worth is it?

Answer 8

Go answer some questions and get more points!


Yes, my mama is quite proud of me. I am a comedian singer and I get radio airplay. I even wrote a birthday song for her and she says that is so special! I asked her what my sister thought of my career. She said "Who cares? I love it!"

Answer 9

I think this question is irrelevant.For parents their child/children are always at the top of the world i mean the involved field .Of course one should always try to reach the goal set up by their parents for them.

Answer 10

I would say no. I am 28 still unmarried, no kids. I stop teaching and don't make that much money an am having financial problems. I know they love me, but I know they just want the best for me.