Do you love or hate your parents?

[J.J 923]

My parents might be the only ppl in my family I do love lol, my brother has his moments, but I don't think he'd be around us as much if he didn't have to be

[EvilCreator222 13]

It's a bit of both because sometimes my mom is great and understands me, but other times she's just unbearable and hard to talk to. It really just depends on the situations we're in with both her mood and my mood.

[AppleButt 8,676]

I love my parents.  Would do anything for em. 

 

[Dreambiscuit 10,170]

I love my parents. It's easy to take for granted all the things a parent does, and mine did a LOT for me. They're good people who care and have a lot of love. God bless 'em!

[daviddaviddavid 776]

Of course I love my parents. They have their flaws but they are good people, and did their best to ensure I had the best chances in life. I'll never forget that.

[Splashee 28,566]

I don’t hate my parents. That’s a good thing.

[They call me Loyalty 1,948]

My mother is a troubled person with some problems that her parents never explained to her. And I did mention this to my grandfather multiple times since childhood. But he couldn't take it to have had two "special" children in a row, so he doubled down with me, and failed again. Since I am special, too. But he never wanted to listen whenever I brought it up.

Still, it angers me to realize her dullness when it comes to notice the same problem. But that was the fault of her parents for not helping them understand the nature of this medical condition, and filling their heads with bs about succesfull futures, and how they were "better".
Which is the reason my mother has this superiority complex, that is just there to hide a delayed mind. And sometimes it makes me paranoid that she is hidding something from me, but she really is that special, unfortunately. I mean, I was six years old when I first noticed my symptoms. But she is almost sixty and still unable to see it...

She is going to kill me like she killed her mother and her father. She is dragging me down, and has been doing so since the beggining. Even when she doesn't notice it. Also, she switches to victim blaming very easily. That is what happened when my grandfather was becoming delirious. She went crazy and started attacking him, the same way she attacked her terminal mother. Which was the reason I started to believe they had done something to her. Anyways, it is impossible not to love that sweet little girl in the end.

Edited May 31, 2023 by They call me Loyalty

[Winter Storm 250]

My parents both had their own issues but generally I get along well with them. Sometimes I still wish I could put some more distance between them and myself though.

[Longhaul 6,949]

It's ... not as cut and dried as it should be.

I get along well with my mother.  We keep in contact, I went back last year and visited her, and I do love her.  I never got on well with my father, haven't seen him in over 25 years, and last time I had any communication with him was 15 years ago.  It was about 7 years ago that I learned the truth about my existence, and that that kind of soured things, more toward my father than my mother.

[Misty Shadow 7,956]

It's very, very complicated. I had an abusive childhood and even received abuse from my parents as a young adult. My dad treated me worse when I was younger and my mom treated me worse when I was older. My dad also left the country at a time that was very dark for my family, so there's definitely some resentment there for the feeling of abandonment. Things were unspeakably bad with my mom when she was at a point when she couldn't even function in society, but since she got rehabilitated, I can have a normal conversation with her. 

[Clawdeen 15,516]

Both and its complicated.

[Snoopy Fan 1,658]

I love my parents and they love me.

[Envy 6,202]

I love my parents! It is rough being 1500 miles apart from them, now. But they will be coming up to see me in a month and I'm very much looking forward to that. =)

[Crypty Scribbles 5,380]

It's complicated.

Parenting is hard and it isn't surprise that they failed some aspects of it. They tried their best and I can't judge them.

In any case I care about them and at the same time limit their presence in my life because it drains me and triggers worst sides of my personality.

[Night Sky 150]

I love my parents.

My relationship with both of them is far from ideal.

That doesn't mean that they are automatically abusive, or that I am an ingrate. 

Regardless of any of that, my family has stayed loyal to itself, to each other, and that is the most important thing.

Anyway, when you realize they're not gonna be around terribly much longer, your perspective on a lot of things changes.