My parents are narcissistic assholes that destroyed any sense of a normal childhood. I didnt even know hownmuch was abnormal until I moved out and saw how other families are.

No thanks. Respect your elders type of talk is fucking toxic.

Not if they throw shit at me while I'm on a date. Parents are people too and they have to act respectful to get it. I met too many shit parents on recruiting duty to know that not all parents give a fuck about their kids. And not all deserve respect.

Some of the kids turn 18 with surprise credit card debt. Mom opened up cards in their kids names and went on a spending spree. Thousands of dollars in debt and stuck with the choice of denying the charges and getting Mom in trouble or just being stuck trying to pay off all this debt right out of high school.

I guess. If your dad didn't repeatedly beat you and slap you when you were younger for not looking him in the eye. Or if your mom didn't ruin the clothes she didn't like that you spent your own money to buy when you were sixteen. If she didn't steal from you and lie about you to cover her acts.

When you live your whole life and realize they have never once apologized for any wrong they are every done. You know if they are decent people then they might be worthy of respect. But my shitty parents ran me in to the ground and disapproved of every woman I've ever been with. Called my daughter a bastard because she was conceived before I married her mother. So only respect them if they were not a complete waste of oxygen.

When they acknowledge their mistakes instead of blaming it all on me I'll think about it.

Respect dees

Fuck off. My dad beat me and left me to starve at the hands of my step mother, while my mother and stepfather spent their time telling me I was r*tarded, worthless and I was going nowhere in life.

My sibling and I removed them from our lives. Good riddance.