Originally posted by: StormRider
Originally posted by: timosyy
His section on parents is spot-on Link.
Especially the part about the one-two punch... zero social life and then when you're out of college you're suddenly expected to have a beautiful & successful wife w/kids on the way.
Yep, my parents told me not to have any girlfriends (what made things worse was that there was no danger of that for me -- no girls were ever interested in me during high school and college) until after I got out of college and gotten a good job. Instead I should concentrate on academics. What made me mad was that after I had gotten my degree and a job, my parents opened their own restaurant and I was expected to help out. Before I knew it, I was in my mid thirties and never had a social life. If I had known they were going to do this, I would have placed more emphasis on a social life during my undergraduate years.
There's something else that's missing. It's called grow a pair!
