Parents & Friends

[jamie_n5]

So I am curious. Do you also see your parents as your friends?
In my family we don't do loads of things together. One activity that our family shares is motorcycling. My dad and mom both ride and have their own bikes. I also have my own. My sister either rides with dad or me. This is our family together time.
Please tell me if you regard your parents as friends also and what are some of your family activities? Thanks.

[Just JT]

God thread man!!

I do consider them my friends. I can talk with them (especially him) about anything, they've both been really open with, and to me. I'm really lucky that way.

We have a lot of common interests so was a really good match. We love to hike and mountian bike, camp, and snow sports. Swimming to. So we usually spend out quality time doing some of those things together

[Phosphene]

Yeah, I view my parents as my friends, in two different ways. My mom as the kind of friend I tell anything to, and come to for a hug when I'm having a bad day. My dad as the friend I can chill and jam out with. Kinda like I can do more serious stuff with my mom and freer stuff with my dad, if that makes sense.

[Dalcourt]

I view my Dad as my friend. I can talk to him about all sorts of things he's quite open minded in most things. Sometimes he acts way too much like a friend and not like a Dad at all and I wish we would act more like an adult...if that makes any sense.

We have a similar taste in music so one of our family activities is going to concerts together are jam together.
Another thing we do together is hunting and fishing.

[nekid]

My parents don't try and be my friend and that's fine. We do lots of stuff together, always have dinner every night. That's important in my family. We talk about all kinds of things then. I know they love and support me, but there are rules too.

[Falcons_11]

I'm little bit closer to my mom than my dad. It isn't cause my dad and I don't get along or anything like that. It's just that my dad's job takes him away from home for long periods of time. When he is home we do do many things as a family

[BlackParadePixie]

Being an only child I've grown to have a very close relationship with my parents. I would consider them friends...but I know it's much deeper than that.

[Zachary G]

I consider my mom one of my closest friends because we can sit for hours and talk about anything and everything. We both enjoy going out to different restaurants, trying new and exotic foods and traveling.

[eric2001]

Not really. My mom's told me a few times "I'm not your friend, I'm your mother". She thinks its at a higher level.

[Leprous]

Uuuhm they can be nice at times but when they're not they never fail to ruin my mood so let's keep it at a no.

[yeehaw]

I don't really see my parents as friends because they are quite old (just sayin) but my stepmother is younger and I find her more relatable I see her as more as a friend than a parent, because at weekends it is generally just me and her because my dad is at work. So we go out, go to the supermarket together, etc.

[missdimples]

Well with my mother I do. She's like my best friend, considering she is not old and she is shorter then me, people think we are sisters and we always laughing and chilling. We actually do get on really well. My dad, he is just boring lol.

[pjones]

i need parents not another set of friends. way too immature still at 16. at least that's what they tell me all the time, probably right too.

[damon_fl]

my mom n i r having some friend moments this summer. idk fi i cn rlly see her as a friend since were such diff ages n stuff but i like not feeling like her kid so much.

[rockstaar]

I consider them as friends and we are pretty close.

[Babs]

I don't spend a lot of time with them. But I can sit down with them and have real conversations, though I can't tell them everything like I would with a close friend. I don't consider them friend-friends but they're like parent-friends.

[City Kid]

I don't spend a lot of time with them. But I can sit down with them and have real conversations, though I can't tell them everything like I would with a close friend. I don't consider them friend-friends but they're like parent-friends.

Well said, that's how I feel about my parents as well. I only see them once a week, but it's mostly because I feel like I owe that to them for raising me. If I could just see them whenever I wanted without feeling guilty about not visiting more often, I wouldn't see them more than one or two times a month.