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this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
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You had a pet blobfish too?
This is a great article on this https://issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/when-the-missing-reasons-arent-missing/
Happy cake day.
The article just before that about the "missing missing reasons" hits just as hard. That whole site makes for an informative read for someone frustrated with dealing with their parents as an adult.
For anyone confused and making "parenting is hard and parents do their best" apologetics in the comments, this comic portrays long term, systematic child abuse and survivors recognize it immediately. If a parent's "best" involves abuse of any kind, it simply isn't good enough, and no victim owes their abuser a single thing.
For any fellow survivors, I see you and it's not your fault. They made choices when they raised you in a climate of terror, abuse, blame, and cruelty, you had no choice. Leave them to the natural consequences of their choices, your one wild life if your own, don't let them take any more of it than they already have.
I love my parents but my relationship with them is complicated. This hits hard
That's my monster boomer mother. Also include "while you live under MY roof... blah-blah". I spent my early childhood not feeling like I had a home. I was just visiting her house. Nothing was mine. She of course forgets my father paid for that house and she got it for free in the divorce.
She'd also say to me "the world doesn't owe you a living." She only had a high school degree and a year as a "kelly girl". That turned into a secretary job at a community college, which later turned into a better secretary job at a huge aerospace company. After a few years that paid more than enough to live and she got stocks and a pension out of the deal. Her aunt died and left her a fortune (none for me). She's one of those boomers that did the bare minimum in life, sits on a pile of free cash, free house, retired early, and complains about people on welfare or "damn government handouts". Meanwhile she has never contributed anything of value to society, never volunteers, never donates to charity. She's a fucking leach.
Oh yeah. When parents got divorced, she got primary custody of me. She was so insane, I ended up moving to my fathers house when I was 10. My father continued to pay her child support to stop her from filing a complaint with the court about me living with him (He was chill and figured it was the easy way to deal with her). So add that to the list of free money to her.
Anyway, now she's old, fat, stupid, with no friends and will die alone. I actually expect her to die in the house alone and they'll find her weeks later after her cat has chewed out chunks of her. LOL. Good kitty.
This makes me feel bad for the cat.
Thatβs cheery.
Letβs hope you raise your own children the way you wish you had been raised.
That's what I'm doing. The pain of my childhood will not be passed on as more generational trauma.
I had a similar childhood, and had minimal contact in the last 10-15 years of her life. My mom ended up homeless and would have died on the street if her brother wasn't willing to take her in. It was my fault she ended up homeless, because I moved out and stopped being the parent in the relationship.
I never want my child to feel about me the way my mother made me feel about her, and I'm doing the hard work to make myself a better person and parent than what I was taught to be.
It sucks because it's like sitting there holding up a leaning pile of bricks, and you know as soon as you move it's falling, but you only have 1 life and you deserve to spend it doing more than fixing other people's mistakes.
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How did you interview my mother to make this comic?
That's pretty much every narcissist's view of having kids. That you owe them something for just making you exist.
Exactly, parents owe the children they bring into this world a safe and happy childhood, the child owes the parent nothing....nothing.
My parents gave as much as they could. I never thought it was enough when I was a kid. Now that I'm in my forties, I know just how much that was.
I come from work tired as fuck and I know my old man was the same way, but he still found time to take me to the playground and then taught me math and English every night. My mom did the exact same but there was always a lunch and a dinner cooked for my ungrateful ass.
Through it all, they always loved me and said they were proud of me.
Well I hate you with a bitter jealousy and so very many of the empty places in my heart. Whoever you are.
"From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee..."
genesis intensifies
Okay so my search wasn't working, but here's the full portion:
I turn my body from the sun. What ho, Tashtego! Let me hear thy hammer. Oh! ye three unsurrendered spires of mine; thou uncracked keel; and only god-bullied hull; thou firm deck, and Pole-pointed prow,βdeath-glorious ship! must he then perish, and without me? Am I cut off from the last fond pride of meanest shipwrecked captains? Oh, lonely death on lonely life! Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief. Ho, ho! from all your furthest bounds, pour ye now in, ye bold billows of my whole foregone life, and top this one piled comber of my death! Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hellcs heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! And since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!
There's a lot of archaic language and nautical terminology there, but its much more about grief and abandon and madness, it shows a weakness, a frenzy, a hopelessness, as much or more than determination and strength implied by the shorter quote the space-nazi shouts.
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When I said, I came up as atheist it was much intense version of this interaction atleast though they were understanding after my resilience π
You can't play football, it's too dangerous!
You can't take a martial arts class, it's dangerous and too expensive!
You can't get a drum kit, it's too loud and too expensive!
You can't have guitar lessons, it's too expensive and too loud!
Never leave this neighborhood it's too dangerous!
15 years later
Why do you sit inside all day!?! Get a hobby!
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I think the Raised By Narcissists group needs more activity. This was my childhood fer shurr.
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Cut toxic people out of your life. No matter who it is. Period.
Simple best rule for a happier life.
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I guess we can make ourselves feel good about just about anything.
I think my 45 year old brother has stokholm syndrome and still lives like this
There is no taking. By having a child you automatically give to him a lifetime of support. That's your role as a parent. Children are not your slaves. If you don't want to accept that, don't have children.
If you don't want to accept that, don't have children
i see you've not met people.
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I once told my mother i didn't owe her shit for getting drunk and horny on NYE (i'm an early sept baby)
....hilarity did not ensue
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