Have your parents ever said something so unhinged that you’re just left standing there like🧍♂️?
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No problem on the phrasing.
I've seen things like what you describe where the parent was using the child support in that manner. Becomes a real problem when the kid leaves home. Always interesting when the one paying child support stops the payment to the ex and starts giving it to the kid (because they are going to college). Suddenly the kid sees who's really helping and who isn't.
Exactly. For me it was relatively clear the older I got, as my father had to give me pocket money and pay for my extracuricullars on top of child support. I was not eating much (smallish, lean, not really sport oriented) and was getting some new clothes maybe twice a year, one time mostly as part of my birthday present.
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Basically anything full on Cult of Personality for Trump plus steadily increasing levels of fundamentalism Christianity. Holidays have been getting.......tense to say the least.
You don't get to pick the family you're born into. You do get to pick your family as an adult.
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"I love you, but I don't always like you"
Cool. Thanks. Feels just amazing.
Counterpoint: You were an asshole sometimes.
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It’s brutal when the mask inevitably comes off and you realise that your parents, who were once like gods, are in fact retarded.
That’s a cop out. It’s not stupidity. It’s hate.
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The silent majority.
For some reason the conservatives in the UK are really keen on pointing out that the "silent majority are with [them]" on their policies. However, originally that phrase referred to the dead so it all sounds a bit strange when you keep that in mind.
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"I love you, but I don't always like you"
Cool. Thanks. Feels just amazing.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I mean they were probably being honest. Kids are annoying sometimes.
Source: Was an annoying kid.
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Mine hit me with the “We're spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”
My mother used to call me a son of a bitch until I one day replied "I know".
Or
"I don't believe in god because of the things He has done to me, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't believe in Him"
She also talked about her "schizo friend" quite a lot, as if the events were recent, even though there was no chance she had seen the person in over a decade.
We don't speak anymore.
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Mine hit me with the “We're spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”
wrote on last edited by [email protected]There's too many.
Off the top of my head, a fav dark one might be their serious quoting the Bible to me about how any child that isn't respectful or submissive should be killed.
Some fucked interpretation of Deuteronomy about stoning a child in public or something.
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When I was little, I did something bad (I don't even remember what it was), and my mom got angry with me about it, and I was already crying, and I asked her "Do you still love me?" and she said "I don't know", and that shit has stuck with me forever and I'm sure contributes to the fact that I don't truly trust anyone. If I brought it up to her now, she'd 100% deny it.
That's rough. I still love you, pal.
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Back when Wicked, the musical, was brand new & the hot topic & it was just so so cool culturally speaking -- my high school choir was going to take a field trip day to go & watch it live in a big city. 🤩 Time off of school, going to this cool musical, it's a no-brainer. Right?
My parents told me I couldn't go because there was a 20-25% chance of snowfall. Combined with a significant 2+ hour commute, there was a chance I wouldn't make it back home by 6:40 PM on a Wednesday night, and that would cause me to miss the hour long 7 PM Wednesday night church services. 🥴🥴🥴🥴
Not even Sunday morning, most of everyone's day of rest. Wednesday. Night. Services. Couldn't even take a chance on missing that. That was...."special"....
Religious brainwashing at its finest!Church of christ?
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That's rough. I still love you, pal.
Aw, thanks, guy.
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My mother used to call me a son of a bitch until I one day replied "I know".
Or
"I don't believe in god because of the things He has done to me, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't believe in Him"
She also talked about her "schizo friend" quite a lot, as if the events were recent, even though there was no chance she had seen the person in over a decade.
We don't speak anymore.
Reminds me of a day when my mother and i had a "your mom joke battle" (friendly)
I think it ended when she said something like "your mom is so bad, she only managed to get dumb and ugly kids" -
Had they said that about cops in the US, I would believe it.
My dad's advice was that the cops are a gang.
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Mine hit me with the “We're spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”
I'll forgive you if you come back to God. My crime was finally standing up to her abuse and her insane religious bullshit (at 16) and moving out (at 18). Conditional love, just like Jesus preached lol
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When I was little, I did something bad (I don't even remember what it was), and my mom got angry with me about it, and I was already crying, and I asked her "Do you still love me?" and she said "I don't know", and that shit has stuck with me forever and I'm sure contributes to the fact that I don't truly trust anyone. If I brought it up to her now, she'd 100% deny it.
Light that gas right up, mom.
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Damn, I've never blasphemed that one. I may die and end up in heaven due to my religious upbringing. Can't have that...
FUCK THE HOLY SPIRIT
Well, at least you won't spend Eternity with a bunch of kiddie diddlers that repent before the end.
Good on you.
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Mine hit me with the “We're spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”
While writing my master thesis my professor suddenly left the university. Noone ever really knew why and there was no official statement other than a short sentence on the website that Prof. XYZ has left the department.
My master thesis was on hold while I had to find a new professor. My mother, who has always accused me of being lazy and lying, insisted that it was all a lie. When I pointed out the news on the university website, she said: "I don't know how you hacked the website and got it to display your lies, but I'm not falling for your deceit."
I am not a computer science major, I studied linguistics. -
Mine hit me with the “We're spending all this money on you now so you can’t grow up and say we didn’t spend money on you when your were a kid.”
I remember talking about how the sun is relatively small compared to how big stars can get. Then my dad said “wait, the sun isn’t a star…” He basically thought the sun’s technical term was “a sun” and that stars are actually as tiny as they appear to us in the sky.
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While writing my master thesis my professor suddenly left the university. Noone ever really knew why and there was no official statement other than a short sentence on the website that Prof. XYZ has left the department.
My master thesis was on hold while I had to find a new professor. My mother, who has always accused me of being lazy and lying, insisted that it was all a lie. When I pointed out the news on the university website, she said: "I don't know how you hacked the website and got it to display your lies, but I'm not falling for your deceit."
I am not a computer science major, I studied linguistics.don't we love a trusting parent
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While writing my master thesis my professor suddenly left the university. Noone ever really knew why and there was no official statement other than a short sentence on the website that Prof. XYZ has left the department.
My master thesis was on hold while I had to find a new professor. My mother, who has always accused me of being lazy and lying, insisted that it was all a lie. When I pointed out the news on the university website, she said: "I don't know how you hacked the website and got it to display your lies, but I'm not falling for your deceit."
I am not a computer science major, I studied linguistics.You're in a masters program and your mom thinks you're lazy.....
