'I’ll do it later': 22-year-old daughter starts treating 58-year-old farmer dad like a child after 22 years of him failing to do what he said he will

“The Curious Case of the Farmer Dad”

As we get older, our roles in relation to our parents often become reversed. In short, we become the parents, and they become the children. This doesn’t always happen, but when it does, it becomes a source of profound distress. In the case of the daughter who shared her experience with this, I think it’s more of a ‘the dad never grew up to begin with’ situation, but we’ll see.

Lately, I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’ve idealized adulthood my whole life, and I used to think older people knew things I didn’t or had some common special wiring that came with age. Turns out, they don’t. Your level of maturity has little to no relation to your age whatsoever, and some people remain blissfully teenagers for all the course of their lives.