Comment on We too often minimize the sacrifices parents make for us
realitista@lemmus.org 3 weeks agoYes I suppose you could apply that to anything and say sacrifice doesn’t exist for anything. But since we are discussing it, I don’t think we are in the mindspace you are proposing.
Ciderpunk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nah, sacrifice in regards to your children is absolutely a mindset thing. You can cognitively restructure your thinking in this case.
If you look at your children and think “wow, I’m not getting anything out of this” I can promise you that your children feel this and will become very distant to you when they grow older. They know when you just think they’re a burden.
realitista@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
This is true for any sort of sacrifice. Volunteering, saving people from burning buildings, etc.