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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gf has a good relationship with her parents, and hanging out with the family is super weird, cuz I have nothing to map the interactions onto. I’m constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop, and someone to start sniping or screaming or needling each other, but they just… don’t
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it would weird me out to not feel the extremely palpable omnipresent tension in the air is there no extremely palpable omnipresent tension in the air?
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There’s just warmth and love and mutual respect floating all over the place.
it’s pretty fucked up tbh
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