Parents

God I hope my relationship with my future kids isn't going to be like my relationship with my parents.
This is something I am sincerely worried about.

Not that my parents are bad parents. I am old enough to realize and acknowledge that they've given me everything. And I'm grateful. I turned out okay.

But their definition of an ideal parent-child relationship seems to be very different than mine.
Or maybe it's close to the being same but we just don't know how to get there. It's like we're trying to build the same building but I'm using brick and they're using concrete. Eventually, we realized we were using different materials, we threw up our arms in frustration, squabbled over which one is better, and then gave up all together.

I assure myself that our relationship is obstructed by barriers of the cultural sort. We were born in different countries, into different lifestyles, different languages, ways of thinking.

Perhaps it won't be as bad when I have kids. I don't plan on moving out of the country. Maybe it'd be better.
I mean, I realize there are other factors that go into making a family work...but it has to be better.

I'm going to be pretty depressed if it isn't.

EDIT: In response to a postsecret, someone wrote "This made me wonder if sometimes a happy childhood needs a parent's unhappy childhood to make it so."
Hmm.