Glad to see this back. And this reminds me of when I hear about the childhoods of...nearly everyone I've met in the last few years. And I realize that my "normal" childhood is apparently rather unusual.
Same, I live in LATAM and it’s
such an exception to have both of your parents, no divorces, cheating or leaving, no half siblings outside of marriage, no crazy grandparents, no money fights with uncles, no domestic violence, no weird debt, stable careers, both working, etc.
In all, I lived a perfectly standard suburban childhood, while almost everyone else grew up with some of the above if not most…