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<blockquote data-quote="Tired Mom" data-source="post: 643885" data-attributes="member: 18222"><p>I can relate to this. I don't know what will happen with my own two children but I feel the need to have a separation from my mother. I would prefer to not be a complete cut off but she makes it extremely difficult. My father was an alcoholic who I did witness beat my mother. My whole life I heard how terrible my father was and he isn't a good person but also every time she would get mad at me she would tell me that I am exactly like him. I so often heard how her life was ruined because she got pregnant when she was 19 and had to marry my father. She so easily would go into a rage. I always had to walk on egg shells when around her because I never knew when she when would go off. I so wanted a sibling growing up just so I wouldn't have to endure the rage alone. I have two cousins who I was very close to growing up I spent as much as time as possible with them and they were some of the few people who had witnessed the rage.</p><p></p><p>When I was 22 my mom remarried a wonderful man. I truly love him. I think he is the only person in world who really understands what it was like growing up with my mother because he now endures the unpredictable rage that I have experienced. He has told me that he wishes that he could have been there to protect me when I was growing up. She has started to take some medications which my step father has said helps.</p><p></p><p>I know she has said we need to talk and she would like to get closer relationship and so on but I get so much anxiety that I don't want a close relationship. I don't completely want to cut her out of my life but I don't want to be close ever.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tired Mom, post: 643885, member: 18222"] I can relate to this. I don't know what will happen with my own two children but I feel the need to have a separation from my mother. I would prefer to not be a complete cut off but she makes it extremely difficult. My father was an alcoholic who I did witness beat my mother. My whole life I heard how terrible my father was and he isn't a good person but also every time she would get mad at me she would tell me that I am exactly like him. I so often heard how her life was ruined because she got pregnant when she was 19 and had to marry my father. She so easily would go into a rage. I always had to walk on egg shells when around her because I never knew when she when would go off. I so wanted a sibling growing up just so I wouldn't have to endure the rage alone. I have two cousins who I was very close to growing up I spent as much as time as possible with them and they were some of the few people who had witnessed the rage. When I was 22 my mom remarried a wonderful man. I truly love him. I think he is the only person in world who really understands what it was like growing up with my mother because he now endures the unpredictable rage that I have experienced. He has told me that he wishes that he could have been there to protect me when I was growing up. She has started to take some medications which my step father has said helps. I know she has said we need to talk and she would like to get closer relationship and so on but I get so much anxiety that I don't want a close relationship. I don't completely want to cut her out of my life but I don't want to be close ever. [/QUOTE]
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