Adjectives That Describe Your Parents

Alcoholic erratic self-less selfish protective violent mellow high-strung inconsistent consistent honest deceptive respectful disrespectful loving demonstrative cold standoffish tyrannical unjust fair affectionate obstinate flexible attentive inattentive honest dishonest nervous anxious stressed easy-going relaxed-nature balanced indulgent weak benign wise street-smart book-smart egalitarian treacherous cultured intellectual religious conscientious destitute timid stern strict proud uncaring negligent healthy poor-health fearless fearful know-it-all good-at-keeping-secrets tells-your-secrets-to-others unreliable reliable maternal paternal efficient inefficient big dreamer-little doer curious humble harsh vindictive magnanimous generous honorable keeps-promises breaks-promises practical dreamer unbalanced mentally/emotionally unstable mentally/emotionally stable easy-to-anger slow-to-anger honest-fair-reasonable dishonest-unfair-unreasonable thoughtful happy-mostly melancholy indifferent indulgent prudish sexually-open permissive laissez-faire old-fashioned autocratic noble worrier easy-going worried-about-what-others-think enterprising successful unsuccessful drug-addicted ignorant educated uneducated pious sensible indulgent witty indifferent vague stingy-with-their-time generous-with-their-time cheap generous-with-money criminal-behavior spent-time-in-jail divorced cruel unsympathetic withholds-love-and-affection generous-with-love-and-affection excessively-affectionate/smothering too-busy-for-kids/family angry ordinary extraordinary overprotective trusting circumspect exacting merciless profligate weak long-suffering indulgent thoughtful thoughtless pious single-parent bohemian old-school structured rigid unimaginative imaginative needy sickly uncaring abusive careless absentee arbitrary unreasonable decent hard-working hardly-working proud happy scandalous wicked unkind foolish admirable pleasant noble disorderly orderly sensible overly-religious exacting stern rude strict orthodox self-respecting conventional commonplace curious flexible rigid intransigent physically-abusive emotionally-abusive cruel heartless unfeeling loving indulgent caring selfless narcissistic evil kind benevolent funny magnanimous hair-trigger open snob easy-to-talk-to concerned-about-opinions-of-others closed-off emotionally-unavailable apologizes never-apologizes admits-when-wrong never-admits-when-wrong overly-affectionate/smothering kept-promises broke-promises strict friend-more-than-parent created-clear-rules created-routines eschewed-routine liked-chaos liked-order creates-chaos kept-order no-rules excessive-rules harsh-punishments-meted-out calm-in-tough-situations admonished-when-appropriate enforced-boundaries created-clear-boundaries home-was-without-boundaries/rules slow-to-admonish bully tyrant authoritarian benevolent drank-every-day did-drugs-daily smoked-weed-daily athletic non-athletic no-follow-through followed-through taught-values made-wise-choices made-poor-choices laughed-often rarely-laughed disorganized unkempt-household neat-and-tidy-household expected-you-to-do-chores didn’t-expect-you-to-do-chores inappropriate-punishments treated-all-kids-equally had-different-standards-for-each-child played-favorites relaxed anxious autocratic egalitarian divorced narcissistic happy-household made-friends-easily little-to-no-friends unhappy-household aggressive agreeable self-aware introspective judgmental critical pessimistic optimistic reasonable unreasonable funny jokester reliable unreliable vengeful complainer stoic industrious open-about-talking-about-sex open-to-talking-about-drug-and-alcohol-use held-grudges didn’t-hold-grudges had-high-expectations-of-you had-low-expectations-of-you jealous nosy gossip controlling affable good-listener bad-listener had-will-power lacked-will-power had-self-esteem lacked-self-esteem defeatist