What is your relationship with your parents like?

[yeahyeahyeahfan]

My mom used to scream at me near-daily (my dad would just kinda stay silent). Even as a little kid, she'd lock me in my room and not let me out, which I didn't learn was messed up until I was fifteen. She used to tell me that it was worse in all the other houses. I know it can't have been easy raising me since I was a problem child, but still.

I gradually stopped talking to anyone I'm related to after I moved out, and when I finally got my own car I went completely no-contact. My parents tried mailing me a few times, so I burned the things they sent me and mailed them back the ashes. As unwell as I am, I'm way happier than I'd be if I still had them in my life.

 

[Heartaches]

My relationship with my mother has slowly healed over the years. It became temporarily fragile when I had my attempt, as it was distressing for both of us; but she was super supportive and has made small but significant changes to improve communication and the relationship between us. I'm trying to do my best, although, sometimes I fuck up and promise to do better. There are still things that I don't feel comfortable telling her due to how sensitive they are, but overall, I feel more at peace.

I cut contact with my father last year and avoid calling him as such, preferring to call him by his name. He has barely been a part of my life and has shown me he refuses to genuinely engage with me. Unlike my mother, he's emotionally unsupportive, very stubborn and thinks he's right most of the time. If something doesn't goes his way, he gets angry and becomes silent. He also blames my mother for most of my upbringing, which I find unfair cause he didn't help at all (not even financially).

He has also tried to dictate how I should live my life and what I should do. I refuse to listen to someone that has barely contributed anything positive in my life and doesn't know me as a person.

 

[Always Last]

I don't talk to them at all they fucked up my childhood and teen years. Wish they would just die already.

 

[EvisceratedJester]

My relationship with my parents is pretty good for the most part. I've always been very close with my dad though my relationship with my mom is slightly more complicated. I'd say that I'm also pretty close with her overall, but I do hold a slight amount of resentment towards her for certain things that happened back when I was younger. I hate my ex-stepmother and I cut off contact with her when I was 14, which was probably one of the best decisions of my life. I mostly hated her because of the way she treated my dad and she was starting to get on my nerves over the years. My mom was pretty happy about it when it happened since she didn't like her and she says that she kept on getting messages and stuff from my ex-stepmother's friends who claimed that they were concerned about how she was treating me (though, I feel like they were being overdramatic since she didn't really do anything that bad to me and arguably treated my dad and brother way worse in comparison back then).

 

[yousaidimsweet]

long story short, they provide but emotionally they are very distant

 

[S like Siren]

I wish I had another family to be honest.
I don't like them,there is hate most of the time.
They are dysfunctional....unfortunately I have noone else and I depend on them.

 

[ijustwishtodie]

My parents are okay I suppose. They don't have the best mentality about some things due to their pro life and religious bullshit that they have been indoctrinated with but, aside from that, they care about me from their pro life perspective. I will resent at how they gave birth to me which is causing me immense wasted suffering and I hate that I have to suffer as a result of this. However, instead of hating them, I hate the human brain. They, just like everybody else including me, are a product of their brain which isn't the best at understanding existence