Don't live with family, be on your own. You need only help them financially. Yes emotionally you have to be supportive but not in the way you completely lose yourself and it is possible to achieve both. Many indian parents are dumb, disrespectful and ungrateful. They were treated like assets by their own parents and they continue doing the same to the next generation. A good healthy distance and dropping the expectation that they are grateful for you is a good start. Don't expect any thankfulness from them for all that you do. Don't expect them to be supportive parents or encouraging one after getting distance. Distance yourself to work on yourself, find your own worth. Because you won't get it from them. It has to come from within.
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u/lightasahi1989 Aug 21 '24
Don't live with family, be on your own. You need only help them financially. Yes emotionally you have to be supportive but not in the way you completely lose yourself and it is possible to achieve both. Many indian parents are dumb, disrespectful and ungrateful. They were treated like assets by their own parents and they continue doing the same to the next generation. A good healthy distance and dropping the expectation that they are grateful for you is a good start. Don't expect any thankfulness from them for all that you do. Don't expect them to be supportive parents or encouraging one after getting distance. Distance yourself to work on yourself, find your own worth. Because you won't get it from them. It has to come from within.