idk why my mom must always doubt me and attempt to incur self doubt in me. I know for a fact she has no trust or faith in my own capacity to know things.
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who knows her mom died when she was 17
It is a parenting style I have seen before and I think the intended downstream effect is often something like ruthless, almost raging self-sufficiency 1/N
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I think you're right that this is the intended message, 100%, based on all the other things she has said before
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I have seen a friend brought to tears talking with her mother on the phone as her mother induces her, via shaming and emotional threats, to pick apart and examine every detail of a road trip the friend was planning. My friend came out of it with a water-tight road trip plan, 2/N
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But obviously also like a completely unnecessary amount of emotional trauma. Like it is almost definitely not a great parenting style. The outcome of self-sufficiency might explain how a parent justifies it though. 3/3
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