Growing up, which age did you begin to realise your parents are not perfect? They are humans too who have insecurities, wounds, weaknesses and make mistakes?

Let's be honest as children, (in healthy households) our parents are our heroes and we love them. They appear impervious to threats and weaknesses because we don't really know better as children. But as we grow up we begin realising they are also human with pasts, regrets and wounds just like every other human being.

Don't get me wrong, we still love them dearly but there comes a time when we must realise this. They may have loved us, but they are not the superheroes with bullet proof skin or an elastic heart we once thought they had. Not to blame them or anything coz our kids will also grow up to notice our wounds one day coz we only human too.

Which age did this realisation come? For me it came recently at 27.