Is there a Perfect Family anywhere ?. My opinion. I don't think so.
I suppose this is the cycle of life, the drama of life and so on BUT Life goes on.
I wrote about My Mother sometime ago. Recently I have been dredging up old memories, which I know I should just drop. My mother has been acting out (literally acting petulant) because of grief and loss and getting me worked up.
A close relative passed away and bad family history (little dramas and sagas) gets dug up. Grief performs some amazing tricks with the mind.
How does a younger person offer advise to an elderly on forgiveness and letting go and moving forward ?
Not that I ever believed I had a perfect family, history and all, I just never heard much about it. At the same time I am hearing about lots of new historical drama that has passed within my own and the different extended families. Arranged marriages that were forced to work and typical IN-LAW horror stories (not a myth !!)... this is the gist of history of my past generation.
My history ( if it be told by my children) ironically while imperfect too is made up of none of these.