Personal Narrative: 18-Year-Old Age Differences

The first person that came to my mind for this assignment was my husband, Marvin. Marvin and I have been married for about six years, but we tend to look at the world differently; I believe a major part comes from there being an eighteen year age difference between us. One issue we have is how much attention I should give towards our son. When he was about four or five years old my husband told me to stop holding him all the time. I took offensive to it because I was like who are you to tell me to stop holding my son, plus at the time he was the baby of the family. Now, our son recently turn eight and I still look at him as my baby, he is the only boy; I also have two daughters. I tend to hold and kiss, not as much as I use to when he was younger, but as a mom he will always be my baby
My husband feels I continually baby him up to much, even after I have cut back a great deal. As he put it, “You are making that boy to soft, he will always cry and look for you if you don’t stop it. At his age, I was getting bumps and bruises and never would shed a tear. My grandma would get on me if I cried for something simple. Boys need to be boys, stop running to …show more content…
I have tried to explain to my husband, if I cut back and any more attention from him, he may feel like I give the girls more love than him. As soon as I said that my husband then told me, “No, he will not, because as of today he will be going everywhere ever I go.” Now, whenever my husband works on a car, cut grass, do yard work, or anything else he feels a boy should learn and do our son is right beside him. I can actually see a difference in my son too, even though I hate to admit it. He tends to gravitated toward my husband, and the crying and wining has decreased tremendously. I told my husband, “Okay you were right about me letting go of his baby image.” Then he told me the words that I hate for him to say, “I told you