my relationship with my parents improved when i started thinking of them as sitcom parents. and that sounds so silly but i realized if i kept on taking them seriously i would always be stressed. in order for us to get along i just gotta pretend our interactions have laugh tracks
no but the chokehold “blank and blank, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes blank with a baby carriage” had on us in elementary school was seriously unwarranted