Intergenerational trauma, and why breaking the cycle is hard (via preenph )
recently, and it made me think. It’s riffing off of the “My parents at age” meme, which shows how much easier or better the poster’s parents were faring at a certain age compared to them. The meme mostly consists of showing parents getting married and having babies while the writer is thinking of getting another cat, or some other inconsequential thing.
This kind of thing has been on my mind lately. I’m turning 25 in a week, which is the same age my parents were when they got married. I’m in a much better place, I think. He won’t be the only person in his family to follow that same trajectory. In a lot of ways, he was just copying a mold that his own parents had left for him and his siblings.
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