what would you tell your parents in the past if you could go back?
By pandaeyes
@pandaeyes (2065)
April 20, 2010 7:05am CST
My daughter was telling me about the time travelers wife which is a book about a man who travels back in time and meets his own wife at various intervals.
I wonder if we were able to go back in time but could only meet our own PARENTS in their past life before we were born, what stage of life would it be and what would we tell them?
For mine it would be to my mother about not giving up her dancing at around 29 years old and to my father (about 28 years old)it would be to wait until he was sure about whom he should marry as he married his fiance from before his army days and then it all fell apart I suppose because he had changed too much.
What would your words of wisdom be to your own parents? Do you think they would heed them and follow your advice ?
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@meme0907 (3481)
• United States
20 Apr 10
I would beg my Momma to leave my father (after i had been born of course) but i don't think she would heed my words maybe she loved him or maybe it was something else. I had advised her to leave him since i felt i was old enough to say so but she never did & now she is gone.
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@pandaeyes (2065)
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21 Apr 10
I guess she never would have though if she didnt later on in life ,knowing all that the situation had brought.
I think a lot of us would find our words fell on unheeding ears.
Its life I suppose to want to make your own mistakes and maybe to live with the consequences.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
21 Apr 10
hi pandaeyes well as my parents should never have married in the first place and I could go back I would beg my mom to find a man who loved her as an equal not a daughter, she married a man who was in his fifties and she was barely twenty one, my dad was only three years older than mymoms dad who lived with us. My dad was sarcastic and bigotted and not really a very nice person, he made my mom account for every penny she spent for anything, and treated her like his daughter not a wife, not an equal.so I do wish s he had married someone her own age and still had me but with a different dad. They just were not suited to each other at all my mom was so 
weet and kind and loving to everyone while my dad distrusted everyone and was a grouch and a cold father too. no theirs was not a good marriage.
weet and kind and loving to everyone while my dad distrusted everyone and was a grouch and a cold father too. no theirs was not a good marriage.1 person likes this
@pandaeyes (2065)
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21 Apr 10
I think he wanted a dutiful wife then.
MY father was also older than my mother but only 10 years and his outlook on life and family was terribly old fashioned.
It meant that as children we were brought up in much the way other children's parents had been raised.
On the plus side, having seen a couple cope through harder times, it makes it easier to cope when we meet them ourselves even in a much more diffused manner.
I think there always is a positive to be found if we dig for it.
