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What kind of relationship you have with your parents?

  • I have good, loving and supportive parents

    Votes: 12 22.2%
  • I have a restrained and reserved but manageable relationship with my parents

    Votes: 13 24.1%
  • I rather not have a relationship with my parents but I am forced to have a relationship with them

    Votes: 13 24.1%
  • I don't have any relationship with my parents

    Votes: 10 18.5%
  • Other

    Votes: 6 11.1%

  • Total voters
    54
Crash_Bash_Dash

Crash_Bash_Dash

Nothing what I used to be
Apr 23, 2024
113
Like the title says, what kind of relationship do you have with your parents? Are they supportive and loving or are they abusive or even violent towards you? Or do you just feel alienated or uncomfortable with your parents?

I would say that I have somewhat supportive but also reserved and restrained relationship with them because of some things they do/have done to me. I feel that I can't talk about certain topics with them and they have sometimes been a bit nosy and too protective about the stuff that I do with my life f.e. they have wanted to dictate with whom I can hang out with (recently they have given up on that though) and want to "figure out" my life for me and give me unsolicited advice (my father mostly). They both also judge other people very eagerly and that's something I don't like about them too. Also there is one thing that I don't like talking about that has affected my life badly and I still hold a grudge about it toward my parents.

My mother is somewhat self-absorbed and wants things to be her way and my father just complies with almost everything she does and mostly doesn't have an opinion on things (or at least doesn't reveal them to my mom or others until he's forced to). We've also had arguments with my mom that have made me live partly in fear with her (like the one time when I was troublesome in her opinion, she threatened me with that I should be moved to orphanage or some other institute). My mother has also a tendency to be all about appearances too when interacting with other people and that annoys me too.

My father on the other hand regrets his past self and his career choices very much and is stagnated to his ways of thinking too pragmatically about career and school (I somewhat understand him because society is what it is) but I would have liked a father figure who would have been more aspiring and hopeful and not being so fatalistic about his life.

But critique aside, at least I have some financial (even though they should have no need to do that anymore) and some emotional support (from my mom mostly) sometimes and they have tried their best to be there even after I have fucked up my life. They have done some good thing in my youth too f.e. advocated me when I got bullied in high school and have tried to make me active with pushing me to some hobbies (even though I did drop them all eventually for a reason or another).

TL;DR: I would say pure love is a little restrained between us for good reasons (in my part of the relationship at least) but we work out just fine I guess.

So how about you guys and gals of SaSu? How do you feel about your parents?

Edit: I don't know, maybe this should have been an off-topic question but I can't change it to that subforum or can I?
 
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NearlyIrrelevantCake

NearlyIrrelevantCake

The Cake Is A Lie
Aug 12, 2021
2,150
I have zero relationship with them.

Dad died in '09 and Mom died in '20.

I had cut off contact with Dad a year before he died, no regrets. He was an abusive, narcissistic prick. I cut off contact with Mom several years before she died; she's not as bad as Dad was, but still fucked me up from childhood. They were producing and selling drugs for most of my childhood, they were totally open about that with me. I was surrounded by drugs, they did drugs every day in front of me.
 
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Dante_

Dante_

Global Mod | No future
Feb 27, 2025
334
I'll be honest

Mom thinks she's great and worth talking to about anything because she loves me but she has an anger about her that makes it absolutely not worth the hassle of talking to her plus she has an attitude about her i fucking hate, nevermind the tone she takes on as she sees fit as an appropriate measure or something, I dunno...cant say I'll feel sorry for after im gone.
 
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kazatte

kazatte

and so, love has come to an end
Sep 1, 2025
100
my mother has done some things to me that i'd rather not get into on here but that all my friends can agree are horrible + my father has been dead for about 2 and a half years. i arguably had a better relationship with him, as the one i have with my mother is way too complicated to describe with words LMAO
 
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Misery99

Misery99

Student
May 12, 2020
169
The horrible relationship with my parents is the main reason why I'm here on this website. They screwed up my life ever since the beginning.
 
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princexhhn

princexhhn

did i make a mistake?
Sep 26, 2023
386
My relationship with them is so complicated I don't even know how to begin to describe it
 
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slitwristsbleedcold

slitwristsbleedcold

nothing tastes as good as skinny feels - 13,8 bmi
Oct 15, 2024
56
non existent, me and my parents barely speak at all
 
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Ludachris

Ludachris

Member
Mar 19, 2023
24
They are both in my life, and they are my world.

I have gotten disabled and I don't want to put them through seeing me suffer. I don't want to die but I can't continue with this life.
 
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Still here

Student
Feb 11, 2025
112
Despite all this you will hear pple say PARENTS ARE SECOND TO GOD....this is nonsense they are just humans who were after pleasure and I happened by accident...
 
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darksouls

darksouls

Enlightened
May 10, 2025
1,602
I despise my parents
 
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ManOfTheYear

ManOfTheYear

Fade, fade, fade, fade. Fade into the grave.
Sep 22, 2025
20
Grew up in an extremely broken household with abusive parents. They pretty much checkmarked every box that CPS would have had grounds to remove me from them for. My siblings didn't suffer the same fate, so I was the main emotional outlet for them. This extended to my very small outer family whom were religious cultists, didn't help the situation at all.
Grew up in an extremely broken household with abusive parents. They pretty much checkmarked every box that CPS would have had grounds to remove me from them for. My siblings didn't suffer the same fate, so I was the main emotional outlet for them. This extended to my very small outer family whom were religious cultists, didn't help the situation at all.
 
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EternalHunger

EternalHunger

tired of everything
Sep 3, 2025
115
Never have a dad and my mother hated me ever since I was born (I was the cause to our homelessness and her having to stick with an abusive dad I never even met) so none I suppose.
 
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Namelesa

Namelesa

Global Mod · A Terrible Product
Sep 21, 2024
2,318
My mum is supportive and caring (especially with my transition) but i absolutely despise her that she is a part of my creation and doesn't allow me to die by trapping me home and sometimes doesn't understand my emotions.

Hate my dad too for creating me and not allowing me to die but also that he is uncaring and scary sometimes.
 
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Eternal Disaster

Eternal Disaster

IHaveDemonsInMyHead
Aug 3, 2025
111
I hate my father more than anything in this world and mother has already left this world.
 
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Ilovemycats

Ilovemycats

I feel like trash
Sep 26, 2025
28
I truly do love my parents honestly, they do have their uhm negative times and my dad can be quite an asshole and a egoist at times. My mom can be also bit overprotective and treat me like her personal therapist, but I would say that I gotten quite lucky with my parents
 
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Irisse

Irisse

Art belongs to Maksn (on yt)
Sep 8, 2025
242
My parents are alright. They do love me but they also really fucked me up for not interfering with bullying I endured. I do love them, too.
 
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Forveleth

I knew I forgot to do something when I was 15...
Mar 26, 2024
2,777
I have a terrible relationship with my parents but it is one-sided. They love me very much and think I love them back. However, I have had a strained relationship with them most of my life and after going to therapy, I found out they really did screw me up. So, they love me and I hate them. Cutting them out of my life would be a colossal undertaking and at this point, killing myself would be easier.
 
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whiskeyblanket

whiskeyblanket

weird chicken lady
Jan 23, 2025
42
My dad died in 2010 of terminal congenital illness, shortly after turning 51 (I had just turned 21). He was my "good" parent. As for my mom, we were no contact for several years in my 20's, but we're now what I'd consider low contact. I pretend to be a different person anytime I need to talk to her. We talk exclusively over text. Even when my brother died, she notified me via text rather than calling me. It's peaceful and better than having no contact, so I'm happy with it, all things considered.
 
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Lady_V

Lady_V

Please be honest.
Aug 31, 2025
86
My father is in another country, he wasn't a good man, but I still loved him. The distance and language barrier makes us not so close.
My mother was abusive as shit and took everything out on me. I've hated her since I was 5. The older I get the more I hate her because I process how fucked up she was towards me. When all 4 of your daughters get raped because you refuse to protect them, you are a failure.
 
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R-7

R-7

iHeartTomoko
Sep 30, 2025
22
My mom died of cancer in 2016 and while I did everything I could to respect her my most vivid memory of her is of her asking "What are you good for?"

My dad kicked me and my brother out not four months after she died but he's always been abusive. Maybe if we had at least one father figure who cared about us we wouldn't have ended up as such fuck-ups.

The world may never know!
 
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TBONTB

Paragon
May 31, 2025
998
They are dead. I really miss them.
I have a terrible relationship with my parents but it is one-sided. They love me very much and think I love them back. However, I have had a strained relationship with them most of my life and after going to therapy, I found out they really did screw me up. So, they love me and I hate them. Cutting them out of my life would be a colossal undertaking and at this point, killing myself would be easier.
I'm sorry for that, it sounds painful
 
FoxSauce

FoxSauce

Emotionally unstable like an IKEA table
Aug 23, 2024
808
Rocky. Mom's is complicated. Cause if all my mental issues (not sure but eh) childhood suck from her behavior.

Were moslty are like roomates tbh. I try not to be disrespectful cuz well is best not to. I cant trust her. She has huet me in so many ways. (Emotionally)

The best I can do is just leave.
 
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NonEssential

NonEssential

Hanging in there
Jan 15, 2025
501
I love my parents and they seem to love me too (whether genuinely or out of obligation)
Can't help but let out a quiet awkward chuckle to myself whether they mention me getting a job after I'm done with trade school though, because I don't really wish to live that long.
 
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Forever Sleep

Earned it we have...
May 4, 2022
13,242
Complicated- I would say. There were a lot of issues with my step family. A lot of taking sides, which has always left some bad blood. My Dad definitely loves me and I love him. Both are actually supportive in their own way but then, so much damage has been done. Really- to the extent that it set me on this suicidal path. So, it's this bizarre sort of dance of pretending to be a family while still having all that stuff lurking there.

I think we can be quite good at appreciating one another as people. But, there are so many torn loyalties going on and I suppose I made the break from them when I could- at 18. So, it's strained at times, loving at others, pretend and polite at times, genuine at others. Somewhat dysfunctional though- I would have to say. Maybe nicer than a lot of toxic relationships but I suppose, not all together honest/ genuine.
 
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Pluto

Pluto

Cat Extremist
Dec 27, 2020
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_Gollum_

_Gollum_

Formerly Alexei_Kirillov
Mar 9, 2024
1,528
Used to not really have much bad to say about them, I certainly had a good childhood, but things took a bad turn when they got divorced. I was 17 at the time and about to move out, so I wasn't affected, but my younger brother was 13 and needed a lot of parental support due to some behavioural issues. My mom abandoned him for a guy from overseas that she met online and who she married a few months after starting talking to. So she moved over there and my brother was left in the care of my dad, who only knew how to take on the "provider" role but not the day-to-day parenting role (ex. buying school supplies, making sure homework was getting done, etc.).

My dad also quickly got remarried to someone he shared zero affection or love with, and who was extremely rigid when it came to household rules, to the extent where my brother could only shower at certain times of day. Unsurprisingly, my brother didn't finish secondary school and became a hikikomori/NEET. He stayed that way for a good three years before me and my other siblings started getting increasingly involved and basically became his surrogate parents. He started going back to school and things were looking up. Then my dad kicked him out over him not following his wife's absurd rules. So now he's living with one of my other brothers.

So in a show of solidarity, me and my other siblings are low-contact with our parents now.
 

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