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My parents don't visit me ? Are they selfish ?

Asked by suzanna28 (684points) April 11th, 2011

I feel like I am the only one that makes any effort in my relationship with my parents.

The older I get the more I realize how selfish my parents are.

I live in a foreign country.

My parents are both well off but never have they made any attempt to visit me and see what my life is like.

I visit them .

The more I think about it the more it hurts me.

All my friends parents visit them and express an interest in their lives here.

On the other hand, I have always been the one making an effort to call my parents and to visit them.

My parents are not poor, so money is not an issue. They are actually quite comfortable.

My mother is a director and my father a retired manager with a good pension.

They are both in good physical health.

They also never seem interested in my life.

They don’t seem interested in whether I have any friends or how my relationship with my boyfriend is going or how I spend my spare time.

I just don’t understand it.

My father is very religious and whenever I ask him about this he says that all he is interested in is whether I go to heaven. So the only thing he is interested in is whether I go to church and follow my church’s teachings. He says this life is not important and only God should be interested in other aspects of my life.

My mother on the other hand remarried and prefers to spend most of her time with her husband and travelling the world.

What should I do ? Sometimes it makes me feel very hurt and lonely.

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