“Working People”: What is drawback of visiting your parents? Sick of being questioned about marriage?

From common knowledge to their love life, Oricon’s column “Working People” searches the standard in different areas. This time, in the middle of Obon holiday, they carried out research of single males and females 20 – 40 years old about what they think is difficult everytime they visit their parents. Both males and females chose, from the top answer in sequence, “cost of travel”, “time for travel” and “preparation for travel”. Also they find “being asked what he/she is into lately” (4th in males, 8th in females) a drag. Especially like “sick of being asked if he is going to marry” (Male, 30s, Tochigi Prefecture), quite a few did not like talking about “marriage”.

For people who are living on their own, the #1 answer of “cost of travel” you cannot ignore. They do want to visit their parents as often as possible but the reality is “when I think about the cost, I cannot do it very often” (Female, 20s, Tokyo). For #2 answer, “time for travel”, because many of them work hard everyday, “I think I also want to use the time for visiting parents effectively” (Male, 30s, Osaka). #3 answer of “preparation for travel”, there were a few people saying, because their parents seem to have everything, “it is not easy to think what they don’t have” (Male, 30s, Aichi Prefecture).

Especially males chose “being asked what he is into lately”. From “being asked to get married” to their eating habits and about their work, many of them said “I want to forget about my work and everyday life when I am home but…” (Male, 30s, Chiba Prefecture). Like “It is disappointing when they complain about whatever present I give them” (Male, 20s, Tokyo), surprisingly some males have trouble with “choosing a present for their parents” and “choosing a present for their work place”.

To visit their parents, it of course requires some financial and other preparations and can be very time consuming. However, it can give them good “healing” by talking to their parents and meeting their old friends. In this survey, large numbers of them said that they have not gone home for a long time. Maybe they should “just go” without thinking to relieve their parents.



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