Elderly parents: is it right to give up your life to look after them?

In this article we want to talk about a difficult topic, which is that of old age and children. Through the words of a girl named Antonella, we will try to better understand the boundary between taking care of elderly parents and clipping one's wings and giving up on one's dreams.

Often a child's love for a parent does not allow him to take flight and often parents too much possessive, trap their children's lives in a spiral of trough, without realizing the selfishness of his gesture.

Elderly parents: is it right to give up your life to look after them?

Antonella she is a young woman from 30 years, without a family of her own and with 2 elderly and anxious parents who have limited her in all her choices. Antonella is due graduate at a university in her area and teach at a local school because her parents wanted her close.

The mother and father without license, they needed to be looked after for everything and accompanied by her even to do the expenditure. So with a thousand sacrifices he made an agreement with his work colleagues to move the shifts. The few times he could give himself aout with friends, they frowned or called her a thousand times on her cell phone, ruining her evening.

Antonella loves his parents, but he feels in prigione and he wonders if it is right to devote his entire existence to looking after them, giving up his dreams.

This case affects millions of people. That's one thing to take care of of the elderly parent, it's one thing not to have the chance to see your life take off. Everyone has the right to choose own life. Getting trapped in other people's desires involves being unhappy. You can love and take care of their loved ones also by demonstrating and imposing their decisions. You shouldn't feel obligated to do something.

Antonella should take back control of the reins of his life, impose yourself, start saying no, go out with friends and maybe avoid answering the thousand phone calls. Learning to manage this relationship and this help in a healthier way that makes her feel free and breaks the umbilical cord.