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Tell Us The Exact Moment You Knew You Were Becoming Your Parents

Everyone has had this moment.

There are two big and ~sad~ truths that happens to all of us. 1.) WE GET OLD.

man saying, honey i'm old

2.) As we get older we become our parents. So, what I want to know is: what is the exact moment — or moments — you knew you were becoming your parents?

man screaming

Maybe you woke early one Saturday morning, put on the music you used to listen to in high school, and started to clean your house — and then realized you had turned into your mom.

woman cleaning

Perhaps you showed up to the airport to catch a flight three hours before you should have been there and knew right then you had become your father.

man on his phone at the airport

Or, maybe you were punishing your kids and you word-for-word said something your mom would have said.

dad talking to his kid

Or, perhaps you sent out a corny joke text in the group chat, and after sending it thought to yourself, OMG, that's a joke my dad would say!

woman laughing at her phone

So tell us the moment you realized you had become your parents in the comments below, or submit anonymously using this form for a chance to be featured in a BuzzFeed Community post.