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I can understand where this guy is coming from. He's in pain about it because it probably symbolizes all that he's wanted from his parents, asked for, and never gotten. It brings up all the disappointments and makes him feel small and unimportant. However, at 50, it's time to stop expecting our parents to fulfill our basic needs of feeling special and important. Adults have a responsibility to this for themselves. I remember my mother giving me an ugly shirt for some occassion. Then she died. I still have the shirt (30 years later) and I think that its no-iron, lightweight, loose fit is really comfortable now. I think of her practicality and her attempts to take care of me that I didn't notice at the time.
