another thing to add to the list of things that confuse me on a gut level: when people describe talking to their parents on a regular basis, or uh pretty much ever actually
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you're telling me you guys didn't get punished for telling your parents things that fell slightly out of line with their expectations so quickly learned to not tell your parents anything ever? 🤔🤔🤔
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and they wonder why i take so long to reply to their messages now 🙄
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one of the fucked up things about this is it didn't occur to me that anything was "wrong" for a long time b/c all the teenagers i saw in TV, movies, etc. growing up also hated their parents, and also so did nearly all my friends, so it all just seemed normal to me
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do any of you feel like you had good relationships with your parents? what was that like? what did they do if you came to them with problems? did you feel comfortable opening up to them about uhhh anything? what did they do if you fucked something up?
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Okay, first off let me say that I’m sorry you didn’t get to have a better relationship with your parents. That’s hard.
My parents did have expectations of me (and high ones), but they also never seemed to forget that I was a kid and was gonna make mistakes. I was very aware
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that if I fucked up there would be consequences, but those consequences were never indicative of less love. I knew my parents loved me even when I was punished or grounded (which made it harder to stay mad at them). My parents had an sort of open door policy—as long as I told
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