Did you ever want to apologize to your parents for your teens.... [View All]

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I've never actually formally apologized to them for being a whiney, snotty, occasionally nasty teenager who slacked off on his school work, fed them blatant untruths, and didn't appreciate the things that they did and sacrificed to give me what they did.

I'm not sure they need the apology since I think they realize this just in the way I've grown up and lived my life in the 15-20 years since that time, and the things I've accomplished and the way I've behaved since those tumultuous teen years and how close I remain to them to this day. And they do realize that they were lucky that I was never into anything that would have any long term harmful effects on my life.

But still there were days and times when I was admittedly a handful to deal with and, they handled it like champs. Especially considering that they were both totally traditional, straight and narrow, never in a lick of trouble devout people since they were kids so it must have been double confusing dealing with a rabble rousing, black clothes wearing, radical liberal atheist son who listened to way too much heavy metal and punk rock.