Problem is parents are assholes. They weren’t self aware enough if to realize the damage they were doing and just pass it on. And even worse the people that need to see those messages the most never will.
Worse, some take a weird kind of pride in being a bad parent. “my mother was worse”, “my father would beat me for that”, “I survived worse”, “be happy I don’t do…”, pretty sure everyone heard such things before.
Problem is parents are assholes. They weren’t self aware enough if to realize the damage they were doing and just pass it on. And even worse the people that need to see those messages the most never will.
Worse, some take a weird kind of pride in being a bad parent. “my mother was worse”, “my father would beat me for that”, “I survived worse”, “be happy I don’t do…”, pretty sure everyone heard such things before.