My Parents Are Polar Opposites

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My parents are polar opposites, most people didn’t believe they would make it as long as they have when they first got married. They have somehow managed to survive twenty-something years of marriage and raised two daughters without killing each other. I was always told that parenting has been their hardest obstacle and nothing is more difficult than making decisions together regarding your children. They both have had very different childhoods, different parenting techniques, and different beliefs but they have just enough similarities to compromise on what is right and what is wrong for my sister and I.
My mother was raised in a upperclass New England family with a hardworking father and mother. She was placed into etiquette classes from a young age and was always pressed to have good manners. Her parents worked a lot which required her sisters and her to always take care of themselves and each other. Eventually her parents divorced and her father remarried to a women who never made her feel welcome in his world anymore. She knew that one day when she had children she never wanted them to experience the feelings of loneliness she did.
When I growing up my mother never worked, instead she dedicated her entire life to making sure my sister and I had everything we could ever need. She was the aid in my classes, the chaperone on every field trip and the coach of all my sports teams. As I got older she began to give me more trust but still needed to know where I would be at
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