I think my parents are trying to buy my love?

[Anonymous]

My parents always buy me the most expensive things but I never get the most precious thing which is their time. They are always either busy with work or leave together almost every weekend and when I ask to come they come up with a reason why I shouln't come. They go to my cottage often and they only let me come very rarely and when I do they go fishing alone, without me or do stuff without me. My brother and I never get to really spend time with them and it's sad. Do you think it's normal or not? It's been like that since I was about 13. I am now 20 and it's still the same. Actually its much worst.

Is it normal?
Should I talk to them about it?

[justalady]

Well i guess they figure that your older and they feel that they have more freedom they do work a lot so they probably feel that they need to spend some time with eachother cause at the end of the day there still a couple and would like to do couple things, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't do things together without you and your brother as a family. I dont think they're trying to buy your love but simply just want to see you happy and support you i wish i could buy my 2year old anything she want but financially i can't lol but yeah you should plan a dinner outing with your family and talk about spending more time with eachother as a family... family is very important and think its great that you like spending time with your parents i was the complete opposite... but then again i was a little rebel 😝

[MoshingExec]

Not normal. Sit down and have a talk with them. Tell them how you feel. It could be that they think you want your freedom but if you let them know you want more time with them then maybe they will change.

[Anonymous]

You should talk to them about it. It's very strange for your parents to not want to spend time with you but then buy you expensive things because they don't see you enough

[Asker]

They always buy me the most expensive. For example I wanted a small printer for my appartement and my dad got me the ''fastest printer'' with a fax machine and everything... Like a huge printer. Doesn't even fit on the shelf I wanted to put it on.