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The Logical Unsaid Boundaries

When a parent says they will support you, they don't say "I will not support the fact that there is going to be a major life change". 

When a parent says they will support you, they most likely mean financially or emotionally.

If you encounter the luck I've had you'd say "wow they are really great, they give you all you want or need', until it comes to showing up at your art exhibit, or supporting the idea that you want to leave home without being married yet. 

They don't support you in last minute decisions only because THEY can't cope with the fact that you are not a child anymore. 

Or perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps it is only me with parents like that. 

Parents who want to see you succeed but only in the radius of their world. Parents who think the world is flat, they only see black and white.

News flash, the world is round and has a beautiful color spectrum. 

Parents that only see the disadvantages of you leaving and soaring the skies. 

I am not a child. There will be black and white. There always has been but they didn't see it where I went, at school or at work. 

Parents will never see the advantages. 

They will give you rides to take your ASVAB test and then deny to sign the permission slip for you to join the navy. 

The "I'll buy you a toy but don't use it when I'm home because it is annoying" parent.

The parent who says "my child is great, he's in this after school club and has all B's" at a cookout, but treats you like shit when you get a 79 or want to go watch a movie with your friends.

-L.B.

Oct. 09, 2017.