runofthemill
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I'm talking true accomplishments here. Being Bar Mitzvahed, graduating college, and stuff like that, they expressed great pride, but those were things both I and they knew was going to happen anyways for a long time. However I've been in the real world now for two years, led the establishment a video and a social media program at the company I work for almost by myself, working on getting my Masters which I have been paying for out of my own pocket, and producing all sorts of good work. But whenever I show any of this good work to my parents, they say something simple like "it's nice" or even criticize it. I receive pride from friends, co-workers, mentors, former teachers, and all sorts of people, but I can't see to get the same kind of apparent enthusiasm from my parents and it kind of hurts. I am the youngest of three, and I am real smart but admittedly my two older brothers are even smarter, but I know this is a natural symptom of being the youngest, but I feel like their accomplishments always seem like a much bigger deal, and the people who seem most impressed by me are people who never knew my brothers (it was really hard going to the same high school as them). But my parents are the ones whose approval I care about. Why is it so hard to get them interested in what I do? I always feel proud of what I do until I tell them about it and it eats me up. They're great parents otherwise (have given me pretty much everything I needed in life until I was ready to support myself) but after 25 years, this one little thing is really starting to drive me crazy.