Welcome to R-slash, a podcast where I read the best posts from a cross-reddit.

Today's subreddit is R-slash entitled Parents.

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to get started. Our next reddit post is from Sloppy Ice Cream. I had served in both the regular army

and special operation forces community for just over 10 years when an opportunity arose.

It was an assignment in the middle of nowhere, but it was near my hometown.

I would later find out that the job was horrible, but that has nothing to do with the story.

We'd been in small town USA for a couple of months. We were pretty much settled in.

My wife and I were not exactly prepared mentally, though.

Both sets of grandparents, specifically grandmas, had been away from their grandchildren since they

were born. They were like flies at the house for the first couple of months. That was finally

starting to subside when this happened. I should mention that my mom is different. At least,

I think she is. I've always been the independent type, and I rarely, if ever, call home.

It's not because I don't love my parents or friends. I just don't feel the need to talk unless

I really have something to say. I feel less of a need to call my mother. Generally speaking,

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