After some recent bullshit they pulled in which they absolutely refused to even entertain a thought process of culpability, I realized that I couldn't remember an instance where they admitted they fucked up. I'm not talking about small little shit (even those apologies are super rare though), I mean important shit. Is this a boomer parent thing? A parent-child dynamic? Something else?
the most people usually get from their parents is "I did the best I could at the time"
Which is probably somewhat honest, their parents likely fucked them up even worse and their generation seemed to lack a language of self reflection
Yeah, I've gotten that one a lot.