Shadow Puppet Storyteller

It's not all Mom and Dad

This is going to nbe a VERY blanket VERY vague statement to make, but I just thought of it on the way to work, and it seems to be essentially true. (I don't yet know what it means really, but it's there anyway). When I was a child, and my parents were together (although the glue holding them in place was always strained), I believe I looked to my Dad for the cash and my Mom for the company. There was a desert period after they divorced, when I was in college and planning to get married and my parents lived distant places from my wanderings. I still loved both of them, of course, but was finding ways to be comfortable with their lives being separate from mine. Now, I think it is strange that we're all in closer proximity now, but the needs I look to each for has reversed (for the most part) Mom is the one to approach for a loan, Dad is the most consistant company. I don't know if either one would laugh or cry over this observation. I do not mean any of it in a greedy, ungrateful, spiteful way at all. I'm not judging capability to fill those functions, either. Both are capable in those areas, certainly it's just my perception. As it was in the beginning, and as it is now, it was never a contest - just perception.