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Unhealthy Mother and Child Relationships

Unhealthy Mother and Child Relationships

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Are you currently preparing to become a good mother to your future child? Are you worried that your own childhood experiences may bring a negative influence on your parenting? Or perhaps you are the child who wants to analyze the kind of relationship that you have with your mother, so that you are able to know more about yourself, and why you are the way you are. You came to the right place. Want more videos on toxic parenting? Check out our video on the signs you have toxic parents
Date: 2023-08-20

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I know there are a lot of abused children and it is so sad but be careful not to put too much on parents. Parents should love their kids and kids feel safe when they know this, but a parents job isnt to coddle a child. They need to train a child how to be an adult someday. They are adults in training. Parents do what kids cannot do for themselves, but they should be encouraging them to learn life skills which includes chore and handling responsibility. Kids think they are being abused when they are given chores now days. Chores are a part of life and something youll need to do when you grow up. If a parent doesnt give you any chores and any responsibility you will not be prepared for lifes challenges when you grow up. Its actually cruel for a parent to not have kids learn to handle responsibility, chores, stress etc in an incremental way until they are adults.
A lot of people that expect too much out of their parents are afraid to become parents themselves because they know they cant live up to their own standards.
There is this general attitude that children are wonderful angels that can do no wrong and that parents are expected to be perfect. This is creating an unhealthy entitled generation of people that will not be able to care for themselves or function as adults. They will look around at who should be picking up their trash and doing their laundry because they think they are princesses that should not. They see parents as a slave class that. No wonder this generation doesnt want to have children. They dont want to give up their princess status to be a slave. They see their parents as slaves and dont want to be one.
Parents can be abusive, but realize that we are all imperfect humans. No one is going to be a perfect parent. Not one. I guess we could all stop being parents. We could all be too afraid and/or selfish to be parents and let the human race die out. If you are glad that the human race still exists, thank a person that dared to try their best to be a parent.

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Another toxic trait that should be added to the list is dealing with an alcoholic mother. When my mother was still alive, she drank almost everyday when she was raising me. She was ex-military from the United States Air Force. I had a rough childhood and teen life having up and down relationships with my mom, plus going through fights as well because of her severe alcoholism that really angered me as a child. She even lied to me many times for years about trying to quit drinking, but I understand that alcohol addiction was very hard to quit, plus she tried to get help, but everything failed to get her to stop drinking. In 2010, my mom was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cirrohsis and still kept on drinking until mid-2011, where she developed more health issues, which she finally did stop drinking, but it was already too late as the damage has been done. My mother died in 2012 from that liver disease. I will always remember the good times with my mom and I wish I could have patched things up with her from all the fighting and other stuff in the past. Even as an adult I still struggle with mother issues since my dad is now remarried to my step-mom because of some things I still had in the past with my mom. The exception though is my step-mom does not drink and she was able to get my father to stop drinking alcohol because of their good relationship, but there were some similar things from her that reminded me of my relationship with my mom, which is why I struggle sometimes with my relationship to my step-mom. Alcoholism runs in the family, but it's better to never follow in those footsteps and do the best you can to live life to the fullest.
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My mom especially likes to vent and rant her feelings onto me and my sister uninvited and usually out of anger. I don't even think she realizes the kind of effects that has in us, like seriously, half the time I feel like the majority of her issues are my fault. But then she turns around and tells me that if I wanna talk to her about something, I can always do so. Honestly, I just don't feel like I can talk to her about anything, mainly due to her anger issues. I mean, I think calling my 11 year old sister a bch and an ungrateful ahole is too far. And honestly, I'm scared to talk to her about any personal issues because I don't want to get in trouble for it. It's a bit dumb, yeah, but her punishments can go. a little too far sometimes. Like earlier last week my sister had put away a dish that was dirty on accident and when Mom found it, she said that next time that happened, she would make my sister lick the dish. Doesn't help the fact that we argue almost regularly (not my parents arguing with each other, just me and my sister arguing with my parents. Mainly my sister) and the house already feels authoritarian enough. They even use the classic because I said so line sometimes. But then she tells me mental health is important (which it is) and all this other stuff that is what a usual, normal mom who cares for her children would say to them. I just don't really know when it comes to my mom.
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All the comments tell stories of horrible, horrible abusive mothers oftentimes with a kind of biting hatred attached to them. And I dont blame you guys, I would probably feel the same way. But as I exist as a person, I cant imagine saying anything bad about my mom. She loves me so much and her life is stressful, and shes a great friend to me. She helped me through a lot of tough emotional times, she goes on walks with me on occasion, and were a lot closer to each other than your average mother/son (not in the creepy way dont worry. I always saw it as a good thing, even if I knew that most of my friends would consider it a bit unusual. I clicked on this video out of curiosity, not expecting to have any of these things apply to my mom and right away number one slaps me in the face. When I stop and think about what the rest of my home life is like though, all of a sudden the pieces began to fall together. This is not a good thing. This relationship was born out of toxicity, even if it wasnt because of my mom but rather as a response to some other problems within my family. Sorry for ranting, I basically have no where else to put this shit except my brain. At least in my experience, thats not a good place to keep stuff for too long.
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thought i'm the only one having this issues. i feel like i was being neglected by mom. despite my effort to have good grades in elementary school, my mom doesn't really care but scolding me whenever i get bad scores. her attention is fully focused on my big brother. yes, he had a mental development problem when he was a toddler to pre-school, and this force my mom to focus her attention to him, even until he was in high school, she still treat my brother the same. my big sis who got attention from my dad, is the only one who want to listen to my explanation about the problem in our parents, especially mom. i ultimately grew up extremely quick. my sister said i was like glue that keeping my old family, my big bro's new family, and my big sis's new family together. my bro now showing a little bit of egoistical behavior, if he make a plan for us, he don't care if other family member can't follow his plan. and now here i am, unmarried, live by myself, still playing the exact same power ranger to the rescue game economically and physically
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I hope you don't mind if I just vent, fellow people
Ok now to start from the start I first of all want to say That I know my mom loves me but she's just irresponsible and really doesn't care about my mental health when I told her I may have Anxiety she told she knew that BUT refused to get me medical intention and just said get over it and stop stressing so much oh btw a side note my mom wasn't really there for me as a child because she was a doctor and overall just really busy whenever I tired to show her my affection for her she just ignored it. leaving me to see my aunt as a mother figure to me as she took my affection and love and gave me some in return but I can't blame her tbh she didn't go to work on Sundays to be with me. I have to say my little brother is the lucky sibling here since We moved closer to my mom's clinic he can go to her whenever he wants and my mom's more responsible and just overall better at parenting then before also, sorry for ranting for so long- Edit: so AND I AM NOT EVEN DONE BTW -

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Though my mother wasn't very mean to me, she still did fall in all those categories. She would always speak as if I was the one tying her to my father who was never really that concerned about the family. She would always talk about her concerns but never listen to mine and tell that all my concerns are trival and I am making a big fuss out of everything.
And obviously, I also feel as if I am a product to show off in front of my relatives and parents friends. Even if I like something that they don't like, I have to not do all that, so I am forced to hide what I truly like doing.
Sometimes I feel all of this just made me loose who I am.
If only they could leave me alone and try to give me some space and time to think about myself rather than responsibilities. I do get that they sacrificed so much to take care of me, but I to am still a child who wants to live a normal life. I don't want to be bound by these chains of responsibility and expectations.

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My mom used to drown me in all of her problems. If she couldn't pay bills, it was somehow my fault. If she couldn't get a boyfriend, somehow my fault. And even if she couldn't have friends, It was ALWAYS my fault. Once, she broke her foot and couldn't take care of my 7 year old autistic with ADHD little brother, so i had to. And i also had to feed her, feed my brother, clean the house, walk the dog, and walk through a ghetto neighborhood to go to the gas station for food. She got mad at me for apparently starving her and she kicked me out. The police saw me walking down the road and took me home. They talked to my mom while i was in the car (btw it was 4 in the morning in 25 degrees weather. I literally was starving myself so my mom and brother could eat. I was extremely underweight and i'm still struggling to recover.
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My mother always kept me at home. She never let me go out, never let me do anything fun and she rarely taught me anything except how to cook and clean. I was always told you're old enough, you should know how to do this without being shown how. My mom hated me and would treat me like garbage. As a result, I've grown to resent her. That resentment turned to hatred and that hatred turned to loathing. I'm burned out, I'm stressed and I'm tired of being forced to play mr mom with no chance of getting a job and everything is MY fault somehow. Lost wallet? My fault. Beaten by a drunken stepfather? My fault. Bills not paid? My fault. Waiter got an order wrong? My fault. I'm almost 24 years old and I just want to get my life started. Is that too much to ask?
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I think my mom is my best friend, so like bosom buddies. However around 9 my mom was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer and a cancerous tumor on her thyroid in the same year. I ended up falling and repeating 3rd grade. Luckily in that time I had my step dad helping us. Unfortunately after they split we moved to another state, Maryland. There I started becoming her caregiver and I still am today (I'm 23) it is kinda scary that I have no social life. When I started dating this guy he got tired of me only being able to see him once a week for the night (not even a day) that lasted a few months and I'm alone again. He didn't even know all the preparation I had to do for that little bit of time and feel anxious if my mom is alright or had a convulsions: (
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My mom is somehow a mix of emotional role reversal, and emotionally absent. I gre up with a lot of siblings, and my mom was very emotionally present in their lives, but for me, it was only when she needed to talk about her childhood, her marriage, her money problems, how stressful it was having so many kids, it was exhausting, especially seeing as thats how my whole family saw and treated me. Ive been telling my Mom that its tiring and it makes me so burnt out, and so now shes somehow always just too busy, unless if it was something that wouldnt take more than two minutes, or if she was already doing whatever I wanted to do. If it whatever I need would be at the expense of anything higher on her priorities list, then shes too busy.
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My parents moved to a foreign country without knowing the language. Since kids learn super fast because you are forced to when you go to school, I translated everything, I was even removed from fun school events to help them. Okay so here's the fun part, my job should've been just to translate, thats it right? Well one of the most traumatising thing was translating a car purchase for my parents. My mum ended up hating the car and actually the blame was all put on me and I was told I wasn't competent. As a 14 year old kid! I wonder why I have anxiety as a 22 year old to do anything thats important and why I just straight up get angry when they ask me for help. Please don't ask your children to make big financial decisions with you.
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When me and my mum fight she always uses her issues and stress to make me sound bad and that it's my fault, she then says if if I dont feel bad then that a sign of a psychopath. She also tells all her issues to me but said my brother is a really good listener. She also invades my privacy to the point I dont really trust her anymore. Every week she goes through my room (when she is working she asks her friend to do it) to tidy it. She rarley fight with my brother but always fights with me. She always expects me to apologise. I've never heard her apologies after a fight with me. It's always my fault: _
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Oof. That fun realization that your Mom was a funky mashup of 4/5 of the examples, in varying degrees and flavors. Bosom Buddies & Role Reversal came as a 2 for 1 deal
These sorts of things are informative and helpful to try to parse through my relationship with her, it's just weird and feels almost wrong to do it now that she's passed away. We were damn near attached at the hip, and I can't help but feel like she's watching me figure this out and feeling hurt about it. Which is silly, I know, but. yeah.

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I thought my life is so good until my parents got divorced. Mom got custody, dad married again. I have become totally silent, over sensitive and lost confidence. But me and mom share a closed bond, Luckily we don't have deep financial crisis, it can fulfill our basic needs. But the sad thing is we never talked about my dad and we both completely ignore it. We hide our emotions atleast she thinks like that, but I used to cry when she isn't there.
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I dont like my mom bc she kept forcing me to do stuff then tells me Oh Im just doing it for your future. Which makes me feel like I cant live without the things she gives me and whenever shes like Oh you arent doing this right or that! I felt so annoyed but whenever I disagrees with her shes like I dont wanna care for you anymore just go to your dad. My dad doesnt even care either, he didnt even want to pay my school fees.
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My mom has always put all her emotional baggage on me when I was younger and took her work issues out on me. Since 2 years ago when I was 16 she would frequently tell me how she was going to kill herself and that she wanted to die. I know she is bipolar but I don't know how much more I can take from her. She drains me. She sucks the life out me. I'm so tired and I want to leave home as soon as I can.
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as a gifted child, im constantly shown off to other people. personally, i just want to work on getting a healthier body (im hella overweight, and my hair is not healthy, neither is my skin) and i want to grow up to own a small cafe/library. sadly, my parents want to to stay smart, go to college, start a big business, buy them a nice
house and pay for their crap. sounds like a movie lol

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What if the mom is claiming to be a best friend mom but when it comes to facts she is a strict mom? And after she has an agressive tone when she refuses to let her kid go at a sleepover and won't even wanna hear the things the kid wants to say, such as the kid's opinion (for example), she starts suffocating the kid with affection and claims she does this for the kid's own good
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I definitely had an emotionally absent mother. She died when I was 23, but I dont remember when she last said I love you or hugged me. I was a self-entertaining child, but I suppose I grew that way because when she was at college/work, I was left with my emotionally absent grandmother. I grew to like being left alone, but I desperately craved her love and attention.
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My mom and dad thinks my mental problems and sickness is all my fault, even when I said she and my dad make me want t kill myself she had a straight face and a slight smirk and just continued nagging at me about why its my fault and that I should forget the past, ik the internet isn't a place to share these things but I have no one in real life and this is stress relief
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I think I had a stroke a few months back that my. mother thinks is a head cold, she still hasn't taken me to a hospital and when I asked when we were going we ended up arguing and she said it's not life or death, and then proceeded to ask if I had hospital money, going to a doctor wouldn't be a problem and plus I'm A minor and she won't let me get a job so-
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For most people she is an innocent kind woman
She wanted me aborted (according to my elder siblings, father and herself)
During pandemic I stayed in our home with her and showed me her hatred towards me every single day. Just a few minutes ago she was nagging me.
I will leave this place the soonest
For me she's a monster!

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Me and my mom are like bffs but if I do the tiniest mistake she will yell at me or she will say things like I KNOW U CAN BETTER THAN THAT or I DONT CARE ABOUT THAT! And if I want to wear anything my mom is like eww I can see u belly button or that is to short and she will say sorry but I just have a feeling that she doesnt mean it.
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My grandmothet and mother shares a role-reversal relationship while me and my mother, we share a emotionally absent relationship, it im not fully aware but my grandmother and her mother also shared a emotionally absent relationship, it has became a running traditional in my family now, I'm also a girl, wonder what I'll be like
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