“Who do you love more; mom or dad?” is perhaps the biggest trick question kids get asked from the time they utter their first word. Although most kids give a vague answer or say that they love both parents, some accept that they love one parent more than the other. Sometimes, it could be heartbreaking for a parent, but in most cases, the look of complete confusion on a child’s face is nothing short of funny. In a video posted by @charlie_and_aj on Instagram, AJ, who probably speaks only a few words, was asked a similar question. His response was super innocent and extremely adorable. We just hope that his dad, Austin Miles Geter, actually keeps his secret so the little boy doesn’t get into trouble.
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In a cute dad-son conversation, Geter calls for his son AJ, to which he responds, “Yea.” He then asks his son if he loves his dad, to which the kid again replies yes with a hint of excitement. Next, his dad asks him if he loves his mom as well. The baby goes silent for a while and looks at the camera with bewildered eyes, as if he’s giving a lot of thought to what he’s going to say next. As the child doesn’t for a good few seconds, the dad repeats his question, to which the child responds, “Yea.” But this time the yes was smaller and a little bit more unsure.
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Geter then sneaks in the question, hoping the child will give his usual answer. "Is it safe to say that you maybe just love your dad dad a little more than your mom?" the dad asks. The child again seems to be in deep thought until his dad nudges him a little to confirm it. As expected, the child again utters a “yea,” which brings a proud and happy smile to his dad’s face. The dad chuckles a little and promises that he won’t tell mom that the child said it. He also expressed that he loves his son a lot too. He then goes ahead and asks if he would tell his mom that he loves her. The child keeps up with his usual response, leaving his dad in splits. Now we can’t say if the baby actually loves his dad more or is just used to giving an affirmative response to everything.
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@yunisworld commented that they would like the mom’s version with Geter’s daughter Charlie. They wrote, “We need Ariella's version of this with Charlie! Since you want to go to the jugular.” @viviangreen_ wrote, “We're in the ‘Yeah’ phase now. The response to everything will be ‘yeah.’” @mskerribaby22 expressed their love for the creator’s content and his kids and wrote, “I can't possibly love AJ and Charlie more than I already do. Hey, Auntie's babies! Happy Saturday.” Other people also commented on the child’s confused expressions and his cute, repeated response. They also loved the interaction between the father and the son and how the baby was gradually becoming more and more responsive. It was really cute, but Mom might not be very happy if she saw it!
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Will your current friends still be with you after seven years?
Professor shares how many years a friendship must last before it'll become lifelong
Think of your best friend. How long have you known them? Growing up, children make friends and say they’ll be best friends forever. That’s where “BFF” came from, for crying out loud. But is the concept of the lifelong friend real? If so, how many years of friendship will have to bloom before a friendship goes the distance? Well, a Dutch study may have the answer to that last question.
Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst and his team in the Netherlands did extensive research on friendships and made some interesting findings in his surveys and studies. Mollenhorst found that over half of your friendships will “shed” within seven years. However, the relationships that go past the seven-year mark tend to last. This led to the prevailing theory that most friendships lasting more than seven years would endure throughout a person’s lifetime.
In Mollenhorst’s findings, lifelong friendships seem to come down to one thing: reciprocal effort. The primary reason so many friendships form and fade within seven-year cycles has much to do with a person’s ages and life stages. A lot of people lose touch with elementary and high school friends because so many leave home to attend college. Work friends change when someone gets promoted or finds a better job in a different state. Some friends get married and have children, reducing one-on-one time together, and thus a friendship fades. It’s easy to lose friends, but naturally harder to keep them when you’re no longer in proximity.
Some people on Reddit even wonder if lifelong friendships are actually real or just a romanticized thought nowadays. However, older commenters showed that lifelong friendship is still possible:
“I met my friend on the first day of kindergarten. Maybe not the very first day, but within the first week. We were texting each other stupid memes just yesterday. This year we’ll both celebrate our 58th birthdays.”
“My oldest friend and I met when she was just 5 and I was 9. Next-door neighbors. We're now both over 60 and still talk weekly and visit at least twice a year.”
“I’m 55. I’ve just spent a weekend with friends I met 24 and 32 years ago respectively. I’m also still in touch with my penpal in the States. I was 15 when we started writing to each other.”
“My friends (3 of them) go back to my college days in my 20’s that I still talk to a minimum of once a week. I'm in my early 60s now.”
“We ebb and flow. Sometimes many years will pass as we go through different things and phases. Nobody gets buttsore if we aren’t in touch all the time. In our 50s we don’t try and argue or be petty like we did before. But I love them. I don’t need a weekly lunch to know that. I could make a call right now if I needed something. Same with them.”
Maintaining a friendship for life is never guaranteed, but there are ways, psychotherapists say, that can make a friendship last. It’s not easy, but for a friendship to last, both participants need to make room for patience and place greater weight on their similarities than on the differences that may develop over time. Along with that, it’s helpful to be tolerant of large distances and gaps of time between visits, too. It’s not easy, and it requires both people involved to be equally invested to keep the friendship alive and from becoming stagnant.
As tough as it sounds, it is still possible. You may be a fortunate person who can name several friends you’ve kept for over seven years or over seventy years. But if you’re not, every new friendship you make has the same chance and potential of being lifelong.