Parenting Your Parents
3/22/202646 min
This week, Alex unpacks what it means to start parenting your own parents. From taking on travel plans, technology, and doctor’s appointments to navigating role reversal and anticipatory grief, she explores the emotional reality of watching your parents age. She opens up about the guilt, frustration, and growing responsibility that can come with this shift, and what it feels like to still need your parents as you become an adult. Finally, Alex dives into romanticizing your love life, and why it might actually be okay to write a letter to your ex-situationship. Enjoy!
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First 90 secondsAlex Cooper· Host0:00
Daddy gang, welcome back to another Sunday session. I feel like it's kind of been a while since we've been here and just chatted together, and so I'm really excited to have this space today because there is something that my friends and I have been talking about a lot lately that I wanted to just kind of like open up and share with you guys because I'm assuming it is applicable to all of your lives as well. So I had a few girlfriends over last week for a little wine night, and one of my close friends had just gotten back from a week-long vacation with her family. So we were excited to hear her stories and have her just tell us all about it. But instead of, [laughs] you know, coming back relaxed, beautiful, well-rested, excited to share the details, she was so absolutely exhausted. And as she started telling us about what happened and why she was emotionally drained from the trip, all of us just began like aggressively nodding along to her story, being like, "Absolutely. Yep, we understand. We have been there. We understand. We've all gone through this." So basically, my friend on this vacation had gone through her first experience of having to be the parent to her own parents. And listen, back when you were a kid traveling with your parents, obviously your brain could