“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” Here’s a rhyme we all grew up hearing and trying to embody. But as we realize, some words cut through like a knife and leave a lasting scar that may or may not heal through time and multiple therapy sessions.
It’s likely why this question recently made the rounds on Reddit: “What's the most hurtful thing someone has ever said to you?” People reopened deep wounds – some from decades ago – by sharing the harshest words they received from strangers, parents, siblings, and significant others.
These stories are sad and difficult to read—however, they also reflect resilience through mental struggles, which is admirable in itself.
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My dad once said he wished he was working late the night I was conceived.
I told him mom said he was.
I have a daughter with an extremely complicated illness. Almost lost her to it twice when she was almost 3 and again 6 months later. In-between, this was 15 years ago, I broke down and wept, being so worried about her and also how distant my wife had become from me as well. After I settled down my wife told me that me crying like that had made me less attractive.
My daughter is very stable now and I've been divorced for several years.
Strong men cry. Strong men show true emotions regardless of anyone who says "only weak men cry".
What does it even mean "strong men" or "weak men"? If it's about the physical strength I get it but here? It's just another form of word salad...
Load More Replies...Actually, I feel closer to someone when that person cries around me. Because it's a sign of trust. (Provided I'm not the cause, of course)
I was the cause of my husband crying once. I asked him what was the matter, he told me, and I changed a bad habit. I'm glad he was able to tell me why he was unhappy.
Load More Replies...So she's attracted by emotionless, cold-hearted men without empathy and love? A rather strange kink, if you ask me...
I wish I could cry. Growing up, my dad would hit me anytime I cried. Not a slap, a full on punch. It is now physically impossible for me to cry. I will never treat my future wife and kids like that.
Your human with emotions and feelings not a friggin robot that has no emotions or feeling
When I was about 7, one of the kids in my class was teasing me because “you have a fat mum”. I was so upset that someone could say something hurtful about the best person in my world. I convinced myself that they must just be jealous because getting cuddles from someone skinny must be difficult because of their pointy elbows, whereas cuddles from my mum where like cuddling an amazing powdery smelling cloud. They still are.
Love this. All words describing having overweight (it's a disease, you have it like heart disease, it does not define you) have such negative connotations, except for zaftig which means pleasantly plump. OP knew her mum's zaftig was a superpower!
As a very overweight person(6' tall, 315lbs), it is not(with very rare exceptions) a disease. It is an expected consequence of poor choices.
Load More Replies...I remember the lady who looked after us after school so well because, to me, she was the epitome of motherliness. (When I hear the song "Ladies of the Canyon" by Joni Mitchell, she's Annie.) I remember her singing and dancing while she hoovered, loving and moving her lovely round bum with the music as she went. My mum would water down all of our food to the point of it being inedible because she had an eating disorder (which I only realised much later in life). She taught us to hate our bodies and see them as failures, unlike Mrs B. On the down side, Mrs B had to pick me up from primary school once because I threw up and the first thing she said was "Do you fancy a biscuit? I'll make some!" - appreciated but not what my stomach needed at that point ;-)
I love cuddles from powdery, fluffy clouds. Can't have the powdery fluffy mom cloud anymore but the powdery fluffy wife cloud is doing just fine!
Excuse me, but I'm fat cuz I have a metabolic disorder that causes me to gain weight. I've even had gastric bypass. I was skinny for all of 8 years. I was even a size 6 for 2 of them! But I gained some weight back, then more, then I got pregnant and actually lost a bunch (thanks morning sickness!) Then after that I gained it all back and more. Now I'm almost as big as I was when I had the surgery. But since I've had the surgery, my stomach is still the size of an egg, and I still have all the dietary restrictions I had after the surgery. Which means I probably eat less and better than the fittest model or even YOU. But I gain the weight anyways. So please, tell ME to put down the chips, something I haven't ate in 2 decades.
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Locked in the bathroom, naked.
"Just look at you! You're fat and ugly. Nobody will ever love you the way I do." - ex-husband
He was right, I married someone who does love me, just not the way he 'loved' me. Thank God.
My ex-husband said those exact words to me. I was 8 months pregnant, fell in the shower, and he had to help me up. He had the most disgusted look on his face.
I had a friend whose boyfriend would take her up in the woods, make her strip nakedness then berate her for hours about her appearance. She was new to our friend group. Once we all found this out we would publicly shame him ( this was a tiny town so public shaming is effective). He found himself on the business end of a bat by my very small female friend when he tried to collect his lady from her house. He finally left town and she was able to move on.
My ex said, "You're fat and you have 4 kids. No one will want you." Well, Skippy. Wrong. And he's still wanting me after 23 years. Oh, I'm not fat anymore, either. Turns out that I ate because I was miserable. Haven't been miserable in those 23 years, either.
I have no idea why you were downvoted here, but I gave you an up to get rid of it and again, am happy this is another ex. I feel sorry for the women who wind up with these despicable excuses for men.
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When I was younger, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. My siblings and I shaved our heads to support her. This kid told me that “he hopes my mom dies” and that I looked like I was in the holocaust. She has been cancer free for 13 years, but f**k that kid.
Am I allowed to be a little sad my husband didn’t cut his long hair when I had to shave my head during chemo? I know he didn’t have to but I thought he would in support. I finished chemo in June and have some hair but I can’t help but be a little jealous of his long hair. 😔
It's totally ok and normal to be jealous of his long hair. It's not ok to be resentful that he didn't cut/shave his head. How would that have helped your hair or lack thereof? How would that have helped your self esteem? And yes, I have been there, chemo no hair etc. it's hard but a bald husband would not have changed a thing.
Load More Replies...People talk about how cruel kids can be... but they forget that kid's are not born that way. It's taught to them by their parents. That kid's parents must be the worst kind of people!
Not everything kids do is because of their parents, some kids just do bad things out of stupidity or are cruel for no particular reason.
Load More Replies...two jerks I didn't even know went on my blog and said it was "good" that my father had a heart attack.
going through cancer myself rn, and i agree. f**k that little brat. I sincerely hope some kind of karma hit him and made him grow into a better adult because wtf. Anyway, congrats to OP's mother! <3
Ah yes, sick and entitled. That's a great combination.
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I had struggled with infertility for years. At my dad's funeral my step sister said "I bet you feel bad that you never gave him any grandkids."
Apart from everything else: who TF still thinks that women are obliged to "give" anyone grandkids? WE. ARE. NO. BREEDING. MARES. FFS!
In addition to that: We don't "give" someone kids. They're human beings, not objects.
Load More Replies...I recently had a partial hysterectomy due to medical issues at 31 and my parents absolutely BERATE anyone who says "oh, it's so sad she hasn't given you grandkids yet."
Should have replied: "He was ok with not having grandkids. He was afraid they'd turn out like you."
"No... because I wouldn't want to expose my children to such a hateful person as yourself. "
“It’s a boy or it’s abortion. I’m not raising a daughter.” I miscarried two days later.
The miscarriage was a sign to leave and not procreate with that f****r
Thats exactly why in a lot of countries doctors aren't allowed to reveal a fetus' gender until the abortion period is due
As a girl dad it's one of the two best things in my life. That and being a boy dad. They're equally awesome.
Have you seen those videos for a gender reveal where the dad walks off when it's a pink puff of smoke or whatever? Awful. All I cared was is the kid ok, are they healthy. If they want a boy so bad adopt, or just get a friend as that's what they actually want.
Some men want a 'mini me'. My ex husband thought that was what he wanted until his daughter was born and he was over the moon in love at first sight.
Load More Replies...I was on birth control pills, but got pregnant anyway. My boyfriend said, "Well, now I guess I HAVE to marry you". Completely ruined our relationship. I miscarried the following week and moved out a week after that.
I had a theatre teacher/“director” pull me aside after a show that I totally spaced a queue/line (it honestly was a super insignificant line, and the other actor improvised very well) and she straight up told me:
“Putting you in this show was the biggest mistake I’ve ever made. You’re a disappointment”
She got fired 2 years later and went to jail for a couple of years for banging my best friend's cousin who was a 15-year-old student.
I wonder if putting me in a play with one line was the biggest mistake she’s ever made.
I'm a big enough ladydog to have written her, saying, "STILL think I was your biggest mistake?"
What does "totally spaced" actually mean? Took too long to say it?
I assume it means OP had a momentary mental "hiccup" and couldn't remember the line.
Load More Replies...This would have made more sense initially if the author knew the difference between "cue" and "queue".
"All I ever asked for was a son. You’re useless."
This was my dad to me. I’m the youngest kid - all girls. I was his last chance at a boy, so I failed at life the moment I was born. He never forgave me for not being the son he always wanted. That being said, I never forgave him for being an awful person, so I guess we were even ROFL. He died almost 30 years ago. Ta ta, m**********r….
Given gender is dictated by the sperm, and he provided the sperm... I'd say this one is on him.
"It's not my fault your Y-Chromosomes are that pathetic!"
Load More Replies...My paternal grandfather hated his youngest son from birth cause he wanted a daughter. He had 1 daughter with 4 more sons and was hoping the last kid would be another daughter. He then spent the rest of his life spoiling that one daughter, even buying a house in her name when she was still a child. My dad and his brothers pretty much had to make it on their own. They never hated their sister cause she was such a lovely person. That youngest son is the most successful out of all the siblings now.
Thank goodness the spoiling didn't turn her into a brat.
Load More Replies...Reminds me of a joke. "I jist noticed that my birth certificate has an F. How the hell did I fail being born?" (The F stands for female, but the speaker in this case thinks it's a grade)
He has only his own swimmers to blame for no boys. The girlie ones swam the fastest.
"all I ever asked was for a decent human being for a dad. You failed. "
Sounds like my mum. Growing up she always talked about only ever wanting a son, she said she'd have as many kids as necessary until she got her precious son. Luckily she only had 4 girls before she had her golden boy, she never gave a damn about her daughters and our lives were full of abuse and neglect whereas her precious little boy was spoilt rotten and given everything he ever wanted. By the time he was a teenager he was awful; lazy, spoilt, entitled, treated everyone around him terribly, he was also extremely overweight and incredibly unhealthy. (He was literally so lazy that he would regularly go to the bathroom in his bed rather than get up during the night to use the bathroom!) Me and my sisters have been NC with both our mum and brother for more than 25yrs, last I heard he was still just as awful, he's now 35 and has never had a job or a relationship and has no friends or life outside of online gaming.
One of my grandpas tried to have a son. He had four daughters, but, as far as I know, he never said something like that to my mother and aunts.
I'm sure he didn't express any disappointment to his daughters. It takes a real monster to even tell a child that they were disappointed about something the child couldn't control, much less to actively mistreat the child because of it.
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My mum once said to me "I love you, you're my daughter. But I don't like you. I would never seek you out as a friend." I was 21 and it was 40 years ago. I will never get over that, it hurt so much.
It's harsh but has some truth to it. I guess it followed something that happened between the two that didn't make the mother really happy. And I hope the daughter could distance herself from this at some point. We don't choose our relatives.
I've told my sons, at some point, when they were old enough to understand, why I said " I love you dearly, I just don't like you right now". The "right now" is important. I can count on one hand the number of times I said that. For me, I love both of them unconditionally but I don't have to like them 100% of the time. They're adults and know why I've said that. Sometimes they just need a nudge about their behaviour or attitude and time to think about what they said or did.
Load More Replies...My mother cursed me. When I was still a teenager, we had an argument, and she could not explain why she had behaved so mean to me. So, she started making big crosses over her face, calling God and wishing me to have a healthy life AND to be hurt, humiliated, insulted and let down to the same extent she had been by my father and grandparents. I never got over that.
Sorry you had a nutjob for a mother. Because that's what this is. Doesn't matter if one is religious or not, eiither way it's f****d up. I hope you have a lovely life with the usual ups and downs.
Load More Replies...Those cuts are the deepest, uff. Once a girl confided in me, quite devastated (as an older female person she knew from a spare time fun activity) "My mom has 4 kids from three fathers. She once told me I had inherited the bad character of my dad." 😳. I'm a professional trained teacher and have a lot of extra training in working with disadvantaged kids/youth and traumatized people and people living in challenging conditions.... and this left me speechless. Nodding, comforting, pointing out greener social pastures (introducing the concept of "found family" to her), distracting and empowering her with the fun sport I teach... But in the end of the day I still have a contempt for that "mother" and a lot of pity for the girl. I cannot forgive the mother 🤬.
I feel that girl. Whenever I stood up for myself as a kid, my birther told me that I was "egoistic, just as your father". Mark you, that's the man I saw beat her and my brother. She called an 8 year old a monster for not being her doormat.
Load More Replies...My mom said this to me all the time, starting at an early age. As I've said before, her saying she loves me means absolutely nothing when followed up by such hurtful words. How can you possibly love someone that you don't even like. It doesn't work like that. But she no longer has to worry about it because we're 100% no contact.
You can never say something like that to a child and I am very sorry your mom did that to you. The op here was 21 and I think that's different then.
Load More Replies...It is harsh to say and to hear. I know that if my mom wasn't my mom, I wouldn't be friends with her.
My son is one of my favorite people. I genuinely like him. I can't imagine the pain of OP.
I'm sure it's because of my f****d-up upbringing, but to me that sounds **nice**: we can't choose what kind of people we like. Mom had a daughter who is of a kind that's just not what she likes AND SHE STILL LOVES HER! It's easy to love what we already like, this Mom loves who she's normally not interested in. Doesn't mean it wasn't hurtful for the daughter to hear.
You can love a relative, but you don't have to like the person they are.
“I can’t love you anymore. I don’t want to go to hell, like you.” My mom, after I came out. My dad agreed. Nothings ever been the same since.
Every day is a struggle to stay alive.
What trauma religion can cause... She sounds deathly afraid. Religion should be freeing, not caging people in traumatizing behaviours.
Well if I remember correctly, God and christ teach to be loving, compassionate and friendly. So. Those parents already are in hell.
Load More Replies...No hate like Christian "love". Religion has no place on our planet it's all just hateful and controlling
this is what I'm scared of happening one day. I know it won't be from my parents, and probably not from my grandma, but still I've gotten lucky making friends with other lesbian people and I still don't really talk about me being gay around my straight friends. Sometimes, like now, I forget which of my straight friends know and which don't. But I'm still open enough to have the watch that only I or my parents look at have some sort of LGBTQ+ in it. (btw, if your wondering why my parents still look at my watch, it's because I'm still in school. And for some weird reason I feel like people on here are going to tease me about it. idk)
If they don't accept you for being your true, authentic self, they are not your friends. I am here if you do ever need someone. You are not alone and no one here will tease you because your parents are looking at your watch. My hope is that they are just being protective of you. Sending you hugs ❤️
Load More Replies...toxic parents should not control your outlook. you are who you are, so live your best life and cut them out of it. you didn't choose your parents, so why should it be a big deal to distance yourself from them. they are the losers
I love my son with all my heart. The sun rises and sets on him. My son is gay. His coming out to us was a total non-event since we'd known since he was younger. He formally sat us down to make the announcement and our response was "we already knew" the poor kid was so relieved and I actually felt bad that he was so nervous and anxiety ridden. I don't get this at ALL - its not normal for hetero children to tell their parents, so why do homo children need to? This all needs to be normalized and not judged. Every individual is different in some way and it's OK. People who don't think it is or condemn them for being who they are, need to be removed from breathing my oxygen. Violently. I wish there were something I could do to help the OP directly.
My first kid has Down Syndrome. Some lady at work asked me when I was pregnant for number two if I would do prenatal testing this time around so I could get rid of it if it turns out like the first one. Exact words. Geez, I hated her.
And me! A girl I knew from school had Down syndrome and she was the sweetest person I have ever known. Kind to a fault, patient and interested in other people. Unlike this awful, rude specimen.
Load More Replies...I have never met anyone with Down Syndrome who wasn't sweet and lovable.
My 16 month old grandson has Downs. He's learned to crawl this month! Yay!! He says mama, dada, Nan (for me), loves to hear music and sing. He's perfect. My word. This family loves that little boy. He's getting a baby brother or sister in May. Another DS? We don't care. We'll take whatever we're entrusted with.
Amen. I didn't take a test for Down's syndrome and I didn't find out the sex of the baby because I thought: we'll get what we get and we'll be happy if he or she is healthy and human.
Load More Replies...I got pregnant at 30 and had someone tell me that I should get the testing done because the chances of having a down syndrome kid increases after 30. I said no thanks... however this kid comes out is fine with me. I couldn't believe that was their focus. This person also got pregnant at 30 and she had the testing and was prepared to abort at 5 months if the test came back positive... like wow!
I was pregnant with my first child at 42. I had ultrasounds but no genetic testing. I knew that after many miscarriages, I could never opt for stopping the pregnancy unless it was a matter of life and death. My daughter had the umbilical cord around her neck, but otherwise was well at birth when I was almost 43.
Load More Replies...You people are insane. Nowadays it's just regular standard procedure to do at 2 months pregnant the DNA prenatal scan to check for the most common diseases and whatever runs in the family. It's quite normal to abort down syndrome babies. You can lie through your teeth on the internet but you know you would rather never be born that been born with down syndrome, you nutsos.
A teacher told me that with my poor handwriting, I should be working for a trash or waste disposal company.
I took that comment and ended up receiving consistent tutoring for my penmanship and reading comprehension, and I’m now an English/Language Arts teacher.
She has it all wrong... hard-to-read handwriting means you're a DOCTOR. :-D
That's what my teacher's told me, with my horrible handwriting I was already halfway to becoming a doctor.
Load More Replies...Had my sons teacher in 2nd grade tell us he better get used to a menial job as he would not amount to anything. I was in m y early 20's as I was a teen mom & she definitely looked down on me. We moved so he could go to a different school. He is now in his 30's and making 6 figures & has traveled the world on business. She is probably dead by now but F her.
My art teacher at college, told me I was hopeless and would be useless in anything to do with art. I founded an art collective with 40 members, and over 20 years, I sold 158 paintings before I retired.
My partner is brilliant. He works in waste management. Why is that considered demeaning work? People work to survive. Bitterly disappointed in this comment
Essential worker. In a crisis we can't do without, unlike some other professions.
Load More Replies...I had a mid-20s teacher in HS. He said when he was in school, the teachers told him he was a failure and would never amount to anything. So he became a teacher in the same school district. All so he could run into his old teachers and go "Hey, look at me! I'm a failure and a nothing - just like you."
To this day, they do not realize how hurtful what they said to me was or how it impacted my whole life. "It was just luck." When I fixed a stereo system my dad was trying to fix. It wasn't luck...but from that point on I felt so stupid. I quit school in the 6th grade and was self taught on everything so that made it worse.
I went to college and got an Associate's. Now, 15 years later, I'm returning to college at 35 to get an (unrelated) bachelor's degree. I start in September. I am not stupid and it's not just luck...
Luck is only 1%. The rest is what you make of the situation and how it shapes you.
Telling a child they're stupid, and especially if you do it repeatedly, is incredibly damaging. I was repeatedly called stupid as a child, and that mentality of "I am a dumbass" stuck to me like flies on s**t for decades, even though I ultimately obtained multiple degrees.
Honestly this stuff does sink in, even the non toxic ones. My mother told me I'd never be able to make pastry (hot heavy hands). So I didn't even try until I was in my 30s, how stupid is that? Of both of us.
You do realise your dad said that because dads are supposed to fix everything and because his kid did it and not him it made him feel like an idiot so he had to save face.
My fiancé of 36 hours passed away on June 21st of 2009. She suffered a pulmonary embolism from her birth control Yaz
She didn’t die well… she was scared and panicked and all I could do was help, hold hand, call 911 and start CPR. In between seizing she said “oh god please don’t let me die.” I said you aren’t dying, just be cool and I hear ambulance. She passed 1 hour and 48 minutes later
She was very kind and that wasn’t meant to be hurtful at all. That comment caused me much hurt and anguish over last 14 years.
I love you Lindsay. I know I will see you again but have more life to live first.
This isn’t op’s fault at all, he said this in a high stress situation to try to comfort his dying wife.
Exactly. And to me it sounded like he was talking to himself too. He was trying to tell himself that everything was going to be okay even though he knew it probably wouldn't.
Load More Replies...Helping her to relax at this point was probably the best thing you could do in the circumstances. My friend died in the same way, aged 35. I wish I could have been with her in her final moments to reassure her, but sadly she died alone (but for the medics).
at least you held onto her during her last moments of life... sorry for your loss, OP
If anything, this sounded like an attempt at assurance. Also, as insensitive as it may seem, grieve but live. Never forget them but never stop where they did. You're still here after all, and when the time comes, go meet them again.
You didn't do anything hurtful. You didn't know how things would end up. May you live a good, happy, and fulfilling life. Always remember your sweet Lindsay, but make the most of the time you have here. ♥
I was in a car accident in 2014, my ex said to me “I just wish you died, it would be so much easier”.
"Sorry I'm so inept at dying. Maybe you jump out the window to show me how it's done properly?"
At least you'll heal- he will always be a pestulant boil on the arsehole of humanity!
My ex has a brain haemorrhage about 4 years after we separated, and was never quite the same afterwards. It would have made my life considerably easier if he'd died, but I would never have said that to his face.
"No wonder your birth parents didn't want you" - my foster mother.
Your foster mother needs to be reported. And a good smack upside the head with a cast iron frypan.
a little of topic, but I thought of Rapunzel as soon as you said that
Load More Replies...I had this and other similar statements said to me almost on the daily, I was adopted and my mother made sure that people believed me to be a liar so I had no chance to report anything and be taken seriously
omg I'm your twin. I grew up with a woman like that who would tell me I wasn't worth loving, even my own mother didn't love me. I was 5 the first time I remember her saying this to me. I'm almost 60 now and I still have attachment issues. There just isn't enough therapy to fix some long ingrained abuse.
Load More Replies...the f*ck is wrong with people? children in the system are not in the system just because their birth parents didn't want them. Some are in the system because their parents couldn't (or didn't) look after them properly. (Source: I'm a foster kid and i see my mum a few times a year. it's not much but each visit is better than the last. I love my mum so much and she loves all five of us kids as well.)
I had someone at work tell me that having breast cancer wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world because I would get a free b**b job. This was about two weeks before I had an excisional biopsy to find out if I did have breast cancer. F**k you, Nicole!
So many people said this when I found out I had breast cancer. Another stupid thing they said was “ you have the good cancer” WTF?!?
I mean, there has been a high-profile awareness-raising campaign around breast cancer, and a whole lot of research funding as a result, which has resulted in more and better treatment options, but no cancer is "the good cancer". WTF?! I hope you are well now, and that you and Nicole no longer speak!
Load More Replies...I don't want a b00b job, I want my own b00bs with no cancer in them! morons.
People seem to think that breast cancer can only be found in the breast and cut off... So stupid. I hope you got good news.
Honestly, so many people said this to me when I was going through having a mastectomy. I took it more as someone that didn't quite know what to say was trying to be positive. My answer was always "yup, now I don't have to wear a bra to walk the dog." Still a plus to me 10 years later.
My mom told me this when I was 14, and it led to my first s*icide attempt: "you are a disappointment to me, and everyone who knows you. I should've just given you up for adoption.".
Yes, monster, you should. Then OP could have had proper parents, not a c**t in a dress.
Adoptees are abused just as much as non-adoptees. I'm one of them and know of a few others on here who have spoken out about their adoptive parents abusing them.
Load More Replies...I mean without the whole truth maybe Mom had a legit reason? But I'm an odds man and I'm going to assume no, she did not.
My mom said something similar .. she had a lot of d**g n alcohol problems, I lived in foster care sometimes and with various relatives. When we reconnected I was 16 , she got drunk and said how the family who took me in told her to put me up for adoption when she was pregnant, like she was trying to show what a******s they were .. they were right, I asked her “why didn’t you? ‘’
Hmm, I was told to kill myself by my adoptive "mother" at 17. Called some lovely names too. Accused of insane things from 10-28, that I knew of.
That’s awful, I’m so sorry. Hope OP is doing better now emotionally
"You're a stupid diaper wearing cripple and the world would be better off without you." - my middle school bully.
For context I have spina bifida and suffer from total incontinence due the nerves not working right.
The bullies are one thing. They are the (emotional) cripples, if we want to use that word at all. But what always hurt me more was that teachers and parents allowed it to happen and gave me the feeling of bringing it upon myself.
I would always, always call out behaviour like this as inappropriate. In fact, my husband has had to hold me back on occasion... I can't bear bullying of any kind. I will not be a witness to it.
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*You're still here? That fetus died hours ago.*.
From the doctor that delivered my daughter then deliberately k*lled her because "too much paperwork involved to send her to Loma Linda. I'm a busy man. You're young. Have another baby." He had shuttled me off to a closet-size storage area with a bed. Forgot about me for 12 hours.
On 50th anniversary of her murder, my ex-daughter in law sent me a text that said *"I hope you suffer."* My son and I celebrate that "ex" prefix at every opportunity.
The horrible thing is, from what I heard from older women, this doesn't surprise me at all. Motherhood was glorified, but pregnant women were treated like s**t.
Now, sadly it seems pregnant women are glorified and once they become mothers are treated like s**t (in US recently it appears)
Load More Replies...I pray that doctor was terminated and barred from practicing ever again but I can only hope... >:-(
50+ years ago? Unfortunately, I doubt it.
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When I was young, my mom said holidays are better without me.
I wish I had realized what an A-hole move it was when my [now ex] wife told me that her trip abroad with our daughter was better because I wasn't along. WHILE I unpacked her suitcase to do the laundry. WHY would anyone say that except to hurt someone else????
I mean, I'm a mum and I've been on holidays with my kids and without. They are both amazing, just in different ways!
Same! edit: as in the child hopefully not spending any time including holidays with the "mom".
I'da told her, "Cool, I hope you die by Christmas... you won't have to worry about me ever again!"
"Good, because MY life is better without YOU. Didn't want to feel guilty about that, you've relieved me of that burden... "
The night before my wedding my mother drunkly told me ‘what a horrible, selfish daughter I was. That my wedding was a f*****g circus (it was tented with cafe lights) and she can’t believe what an awful selfish person I am.” Because I had my wedding in the state I had lived in for 6 years and none of her friends/family decided to travel to it. Oh and she decided she would throw her own reception the next week (the reason no one decided to come to the actual wedding) which forced me to forgo a honeymoon and instead travel to my hometown to attend her second reception.
Followed closely for when I tried to hang myself at 11 in my closet and the rack and shelf fell instead and she told me “you are too fat to hang yourself.”.
With a mother like that, it's quite the mystery that she tried to off herself as a kid.
I would have refused to invite her, and not bothered with the 2nd reception. If you can't be happy for me on my special day you don't need to be in my life.
"You'll never be loved or cherished because you look like me. You will never belong anywhere, no one cares about you enough to actually be there for you. You will be a burden to everyone else." - From Dad to 11 year old me after we argued about how he missed my birthday(again).
But looking back, I laugh because.... it seemed like he was projecting his own insecurities onto me.
My stepmom wrote me a letter when I was in my mid 20s, had 2 kids and happily married saying I had the morals of a alley cat, I was an unfit parent and my husband should divorce me. I was literally Cinderella starting from age 5. She even locked me in a cage.
She is just someone you don't need to care about. NC and I hope your father divorced her.
OP ought to tell her stepmonster to get back in the cage of jealousy she locks herself in so much and slam the door shut. Then throw away the key while she's at it... -_-
Your stepmom was clearly projecting her own flaws on to you!
"I cheated on you, and the only reason I'm telling you is because I'm pregnant."
fun fact - there's a song called "the AUDACITY" and it's kind of sad but also not that sad
Load More Replies...Awful, though realistically she could have been doing him a favor if he wasn't the father... Saved him years of child support payments for a kid that wasn't his. 😕
That's what I'm sitting here thinking! That could have gone the other way and been much worse.
Load More Replies...better she told him than tried to pass the child off as his when it was born, but what a b!tch
Good... I guess, no baby trapping and lying about paternity at least
And if there was any way on earth she could hide it from you, trust me she would.
'People like you are a statistic. Once you fail once you'll keep on failing': head of school when I had to repeat a year in undergrad, consequence of being naive and finding myself in a s****y abusive relationship.
I refused to shake hands with him after my final performance and told him that no, I wouldn't go to graduation because I'd have to shake his hand, when he asked if I was attending. Also quite enjoyed sending copies of my 3 following degree certificates, and signing the letter Dr ... . Prick.
A beautiful tale of revenge. Well done on continuing your education and keeping your head high.
My first run at college I was a solid D student at best because of circumstances. When I tried again later in life I pulled off solid A's and was an inspiration to my children. Circumstances MATTER.
Ι was in love with a girl in uni. We had casual s*x for some years but she wouldn't commit to me because she said she wasn't into me. After I confessed my feelings she told me she sees me as her old car. Still doing the job but not what she really needs. It's a matter of time before she throws it away but as long as it's convenient it's still around. Broke my heart in a million pieces.
I agree, but he should have moved on before it got to that point, you can't make someone love you.....
Load More Replies...I'm gonna get so much s**t for this, but idk how I feel about this one either. Yes, the words were harsh, but also the OP chose to keep having this casual relationship with her even though they knew she didn't feel the same. I'm not trying to invalidate the OP's feelings, but honestly they were the one who built the *relationship* into something that it wasn't. She told you she wasn't into you like that from the start, and yet you kept going back for what? Hoping you could screw her into love? Is this not the same kind of guy we tell to stop trying to un-friendzone a woman when she says she just wants to be friends? Yes, bennies were added to the mix, but she was honest about it not going anywhere, & no one FORCED him to do it. Sorry, but I pronounce you both ridiculous.
I agree to a certain extent. But the words she chose to put him in place were unnecessary cruel. There was no need for that.
Load More Replies...She told him who she was all along. That he stayed was him attending to an illusion rather than reality. Bad feeling for sure but she was being true. He has the ability to stop being convenient.
If somebody refuses to move from casual s*x to a relationship after 6 months or so, they are not in love with you, and do not want a relationship with you. You needed to move on years ago
Trade HER in for a new model. This one clearly belongs in the junkyard. Probably rusty and won't start!
My “friend” to me not long after a childhood friend died (like days after):
“You’re like a black hole and spread depression everywhere you go”.
Better a black hole than an aśshole! At least I draw things in. You just śhit everywhere.
Took my math book up to the teacher's desk with a question. I wasn’t grasping it. He slams my book on his desk and asked me if I was stupid or what.
Small town school about 30 years ago. If I ever run into that prick I have a few things to show and tell him.
i can so relate to this my 8th grade math teacher told me and i quote " i hope to God you marry rich cause you are too stupid to do anything else" i hated that man
If teachers like him don't do their jobs and teach, why are they being paid? I was in a heavily tenured high school back in the 70's, and can count on one hand how many teachers truly did their jobs.
All people are good in some things, great in others and not good or great in others. Math and science subjects were my downfall. English, history and art were my strengths. My career went very well when I worked at the last three. I'm retired now but I still remember those teachers who probably good at their subjects but not strong in communicating, encouraging, and teaching ALL their students. Occasionally I think of them with humour. I beat them all.
I got called stupid a lot by this one teacher. I was six. I'm 62 now so he's probably dead.
I am an Army brat so went to several different schools. The military was progressive, when I went to a post school I had new math, civilian schools old math. Went to school off post while at Ft. Hood, math teacher gave me a book, told me where to start and when I finished that chapter come up and she would give me the test. I was not a self starter. Guess who failed math. She was also the art teacher so she sat at her desk and did art projects.
Just a kid who grew up in Japan. I didn't know what a gopher was. My science teacher had the entire class laugh at me.
My mom told me it was my fault after SA.
I got this too, my husband raped me, when I finally told my mom, she laughed at me and told me "He's your husband, he can do what he wants, it's not rape"
Old-fashioned attitudes take a long time to die (as I hope your [hopefully ex-]husband does).
Load More Replies...My mother said, when she found out a foster father raped me repeatedly while I was staying in their home, that I "must have done something to provoke it." I was 8 when it happened, and it was her fault I was in that position in the first place.
I was told the same by my father and mother and that it didn’t matter that I had been sexually assaulted. My father told me I was a late abortion more than once.
My husband just tonight told me he doesn’t love me and Im a f*****g idiot. Its not the first time and likely wont be the last.
Leave him!!! Why TF are you still married to an a$$hole like this?
Unfortunately, some women are stuck in relationships that are not easy to leave. Maybe they have no job, no car, no family to help.
Load More Replies...This one is a little...idk what to think. Reading the rest of the original post, the OP says she has no income of her own. Her husband works from home, and there are pets, etc. to consider, which makes you immediately feel terrible for her, but there's also a bit of weirdness on her part as well. The OP's husband is definitely a turd, but he's also not trying to keep her there. According to one of her responses, when the husband refused to go to counseling (she managed to get $300 for that), she went to stay with mum for a while to see if he would "miss her." From what she is saying/describing, he would probably be happy if she left. It actually seems like he is actively trying to get her to leave by being emotionally abusive but she keeps trying to work it out. I've never been in this situation, so I can't begin to understand the psychology behind victim & abuser, but I keep getting the feeling that there's something...off(?) here.
It will never get any better sweetie. He will always put you down. ALWAYS
Make it the last time. You need to leave this monster. You deserve better
"You don't know trauma. You're making it up." Mom mocked me, because I thought I had PTSD from childhood trauma. Turns out, I was right.
Kind of like my mom reading a note from my doctor when I came home from college, asking her not to smoke in the house because I had asthma. She tossed it on the counter with a bunch of other papers and said "YOU don't have asthma." while lighting up a cigarette right next to me... Had conversations with me standing outside a screen door while she was inside smoking in the kitchen. 🤦🏼♀️ My assumption is it was denial that her primary joy in life was making me sick and she didn't want to feel like a bad mother. Cigarettes were always the priority... Even now that her own health is failing 😕. Single mom who did her best, addiction is just a very powerful force.
When I was 10 my mom told me I was the reason my dad was dying of cancer… he died a few months after that. I am 31 now and suffer from death anxiety.. always thinking the ppl I love will die everyday. It's hard.
Unless the kid doused his father with radioactive water or somehing, how the hell could he cause a cancer?
You don't always think about those things when you're 10.
Load More Replies...You should make sure every person in her sphere knows this. It's reprehensible!
My dad told me my brother had a learning disability because of me talking for him.
Taking it out on the most vulnerable person available to feel better by making someone else suffer. What a glorious utterly despicable evil b***h.
Wow, I am sorry she laid that on you. Of course it was NOT YOUR FAULT!!!!!!
Oh I know this well. One time my brothers and my soon to be SIL sat me down and said I need to change my attitute and some other stuff and I asked them: Are you seriously telling me I'm at fault that our dad has cancer and none of them said anything just looking around weirdly. Wasn't enough that my mom died of cancer a few years prior.I bet this was my fault too... I don't know where they got this s****y idea but this stained my good relationship with them all and it never recovered. I told that to our neighbor who was my moms best friend and she chewed them out for that.
My mom denying her abuse towards me even almost a decade later has f****d me up more than I thought. She's way better nowadays, but she's still a narcissist.
I would have gone no contact as soon as possible. some people don't change, regardless of what they tell you.
"I'm glad we never had kids. I wouldn't want them to inherit your mental problems." - my ex-wife while I was in treatment for severe depression.
EDIT: For context. We were already breaking up after 13 years together. I'd always wanted to be a father because my own had passed away when i was very young from cancer. We spoke about having children for years.
I had been struggling with depression for a few years before I started treatment, but I was attacked randomly by 4 men on the street and run over by their getaway car which left me with acute PTSD and anxiety. During this time, my ex-wife cheated on me because I was no longer able to emotionally support her.
Her saying that was in the final days of our divorce. It was only meant to hurt me because she knew how badly I wanted a family. I'm glad to be rid of her.
I hope this poor guy got the kids he longed for once he'd ditched that POS.
"I'm not your mother and I don't want this (a piece of art I spent a month making just for her just for her to throw it back in my, then 8 year old, face) Now go away."
~My birth-giver the day I first met her.
“I don’t think you have ADHD, you aren’t hyperactive, I think you’re just lazy, unmotivated, and you don’t care.”
My ex when I brought up thinking I had it. Years later, guess what I was diagnosed with.
ADHD is such a misinformed disorder, and those who don't have it don't understand, and even those who have it, but refuse to acknowledge it (my mother) treat it like being lazy or having too much energy is a choice. It's more like paralysis or drinking way too much caffeine than choosing to be either. And it absolutely can be both. I have the paralysis kind, where I stare at things that I want to do for HOURS before I can do anything, and my husband has the "can't stay still, must do something" kind.
My sister told my mom in high school that she thought she might have ADHD. My mom laughed at her and said “no you don’t, I’ve never met anyone who can sit and read a book for 9 hours straight like you.” Few years after graduation, she got diagnosed with ADHD. She still hasn’t told my mom because she’s terrified.
Apart from my mom calling me autistic, clumsy, and useless, the thing that hurt the most was when she’d call me “two-ton bessy” or “Hagrid’s daughter.” She encouraged me to take seconds and thirds of her cooking, but on the same note, coaxed me to starve myself and try other harmful tactics to lose weight. If I ate a snack that was bought for me, she’d tell me I was going to k*ll myself with food.
Oh so "autistic" is an insult now, is it? Drop dead. ~An autistic person
Not now maybe but during the 80's and 90's it certainly was.
Load More Replies...Not necessarily to me, but to my parents about me. I have a disability and several years ago a doctor tried to convince my parents that it would be best to put me in a group home and forget about me. Luckily my parents, with the counsel of my step-grandfather. decided to go against the doctor's advice.
On the other hand, there are people like my neighbor when I was a boy who had Down syndrome. His parents kept him at home and didn't send him to school, but when he was a teenager they finally sent him to a group home or institution with other people with Down syndrome. He was much happier there, and I'm pretty sure it was the best thing they could have done for him.
Unfortunatly this used to be the norm up until the 70s and 80s in a lot of countries. I worked for years as an advocate for people with learning disabilities and autism, a lot of them over a certain age had experienced life in institutions and most still struggled to adapt to real life ever 20-30yrs later. My old neighbour was put in an institution at 6months old because he had spina bifida, his parents never visited him or told his younger siblings he existed. He was released into society in his 40s with no experience of the real world and no support to integrate him into his new life. He's now in his 60s and still struggles a lot.
The doctor was a crass prick. However, depending on the severity of the disability, what will the OP do as the parents age and can no longer provide care and when they die? Transitioning to alternate care while parents are still alive is usually less traumatic for all involved.
My dad has been dead for five years, the “damn your lucky” or “I wish my dad was dead too” is some of the most insensitive thing to ever say to a person right after they let you know their dad is dead.
As someone who has said that, I'll tell you why. If someone is saying they wish a parent is dead, after you telling them your parent is dead, we suffered abuse at the hands of that parent and have no concept of love from that parent. There is no concept of belonging. All we know of this parent is abuse and hurt, we don't understand how you could love your mom or dad, it's a completely foreign concept.
I get where you're coming from, especially from the second half of your comment but I had an abusive father but I would never have dreamed of saying that to anyone else before he died. Purely because he showed me just enough of his good side to constantly question myself. "But he wasn't allllll bad, right?" I had seen enough of the world as a kid to guess that other people did indeed love their parents; it wasn't just for show like it was in our family.
Load More Replies...Yeah. First day at college, meeting my new suitemates. One told me I was incredibly lucky to that my dad passed and she was jealous because she still had to deal with hers (who was, I found out, a genuinely nice older man). The closest I ever got to punching another human being in the face.
I had an old “friend” tell me that I could never be a teacher because I wasn’t charismatic enough. I’m now graduated with my credential and masters in education and been teaching for over 4 years. So she can kindly suck it.
"I should have sold you to a slave camp." -my mom when I was about 7 years old.
I used to get sad remembering this but now it just fills me with immense anger.
From my boss from my previous job: "You're a headache to deal with, and I regret hiring you. I wouldn't surprise you don't give your girlfriend, friends, and family a headache"
I was hired with this guy fully knowing I had little experience with the position I was hired for. I didn't lie during the interview.
After what I thought was a good relationship in my 30's with my dad, I was having trouble accommodating his wife's son's wedding and my lifelong friends wedding in the same week in two different states in the northeast (I'm on the west coast). I brought up the fact that I was having trouble and my dad tried to fight me (has never in my life been physical before), called me a narcissist, that I'm a piece of s**t since I was 17, and that I'm not to talk to him ever again and if he ever sees me again, he will kill me. I didn't even meet my "step-bro" until my 30's and spoke to him previously about my difficulty finding flights. Anyway, at the time of the fight I was still trying to find flights to accommodate both, but my dad telling me those things made up my mind for me. It's a shame, he's 71 and I probably will not talk to him ever again. I'm willing, but he is not. His white knight meter is out of calibration to say the least. So dumb...
My father had dementia due to diabetic strokes. I went to visit him 6 days a week.
A co-worker said, "I don't know why you go so often...he's not going to remember you were there."
They might not remember specifics about you or that you visited the day before, but I do believe deep in their brain there is some glimmer of recognition that you're known to them and somebody they see regularly.
it depends on the individual. My grandmother developed alzheimer's almost 20 years before my mother brought her to live with us. It was me, my mother, and my grandmother in the house. She lived with us 12 years, but never really knew who either of us were. When I was very little, 3 or 4, when she had had it about 15 years, she knew that she recognised me but didn't know who I was, but by the time I was 6, she didn't have any clue at all. She didn't find any comfort in our presence, or in our home, and she was rarely anything but violent - which she hadn't been before her illness. It really depends on the individual and the progression of the disease.
Load More Replies...I worked for a dementia charity, although people may not recall who or when they are visited, the feeling of being happy remains for a long time. The same goes for getting your name wrong they know the feeling that they love you but don't remember to who that feeling belongs so sons get called fathers name and daughters become sisters.
You're exactly right, this has happened to me, they might not remember the relationship but they seem to remember the love. That was good enough for me.
Load More Replies...Eh maybe because they’re family and we love them? And if there’s even a slight possibility they are able to tell what’s going on (they do have moments of lucidity, especially in earlier stages), we want them to see us and know we’re there, rather than seeing random doctors and nurses all the time?
Because your dad is a human being who still loves you. I work with dementia patients, and we NEVER say that about visits. Most of my residents love visitors, whether they remember them or not! Usually they're delighted to share a cup of tea or sing a few songs with people. I hope you told that co-worker to f*ck off. And I hope your Dad is in a great place with great staff who love him and love you just the same.
Maybe because it makes OP feel better to spend time with him? Duh? Doesn't matter if dad remembers him or not....
My husband (now ex) called me "big and loose" when resuming intimacy after the birth of our child.
Funny the amount of weird untrue things that men believe regarding women's bodies. They can be truly imbecilic. I hope you and your child are well!
"You are nice but damn, I have rarely seen someone as ugly as you".
For context, teenagers summer camp, I was 17. This guy was supposed to be someone I was getting along with quite well (the whole group but we were a few being always together).
I was seated chatting with the whole groupe and he came to say that randomly.
I wasn't even interacting with him. Like, he said my name so he could have my attention.
Its like he NEEDED to say it in front of everyone and he didn't feel like he was saying something wrong.
What was weird is that, he wasn't even laughing. Its not like someone or some people were trying to make fun of me.
It was so harsh that people were speechless. No one laughed. At all. I think they were as much confused as I was.
I appreciate no one jumped on that after those "wtf" 20 seconds, they all went like nothing happened.
I am 35 and still remember this. Knowing how teenagers can be cruel, I hate this had a huge impact on me but I remember people really tried to not make it a big deal. The group didn't fall into that s**t and they were between 15-17 years old.
I think someone even said to the guy "are you being serious right now??".
But I am not sure. I was really trying to swallow the humiliation.
I hate that someone can just say something that haunts you your whole life and they can just forget about it.
Hate s**t like this. Something similar happened to me as a teenager. Same situation, he was a good friend (it seemed) and then randomly said I had a five head in front of all our friends. No prompting, nothing to make any of us think he would say something like that - he just said it. It’s been over 10 years, and I’m actively looking at surgeries to shorten foreheads
I’m meant to be alone.
Probably the first time my mom said “have a nice life.” Took about 10 more disownings before I said enough’s enough and cut ties. I’m still kind of bitter but have come to terms with it. She still doesn’t understand why I don’t wanna let her back in. Last I heard she disowned my sister (again) too.
My grandma disowned me after I wrote her a letter while in a fibro(myalgia) fugue. It wasn't hurtful, but it was honest, things that the family had been saying we should say to her for years but didn't cuz we knew she'd take it bad. Well, we were right, she took it really bad. We all thought she'd get over it since I wasn't the first disowned, nor the last, but since I was dumb enough to put it in writing, she always had it on hand to get mad about again. Even after she started forgetting things and forgave everyone, she held on to that dåmn letter, and refused to forgive me. She died resentful and angry at everyone and everything, but it still hurts that I never got to say goodbye.
After the first one the OP would have done well to step back and see how it played out. "I'm really sorry that you feel that way but if you decide in the future that you would like a relationship, here's my (throwaway) email." From that point forward the ball is firmly in the OP's court and while the "mom" feels otherwise, the reality would slap her like a wet mop when she needs something from the OP.
My dad one time told my mom over the phone while I could hear that he didn’t want a relationship with me anymore.
Well, we had a big argument and my mom called him while I was sitting on the couch listening and she had him on speaker because she wanted us to talk it through but before she could tell him that he was on speaker he said he didn’t want a relationship with me or the person I was becoming. My dad and I have had issues over the years because we butt heads and it’s gotten better since my parents got divorced but yeah. That’s the whole story.
"Despite not being good-looking, you are so good at studies". I don't know whether I must feel hurtful or not.
"Even though you're breathing, I can't decide if you're brain-dead or not"
"You'd be gorgeous if you dropped a couple pounds." --creep photographer whispered to my ear while taking my senior class picture. 🤦🏼♀️ Perfect way to really bring out the best in people while taking a portrait for a yearbook hundreds of people would see and have as a reminder of my existence in high school. 👍🏼 Even better was the nasty girls on the yearbook committee evidently having access to all my class pictures, and deliberately putting the most unflattering god-awful photo of me in our senior yearbook. I'm long over it now, but it was certainly mortifying at the time and still sounds objectively messed up recalling the memory.🤦🏼♀️
jerk photographer who was taking my passport picture: "you're not even trying to look pretty, are you?"
Load More Replies... My mom telling me she'd be embarrassed to be seen in public with me if I got a buzz cut. She convinced all of my family to agree with the sentiment too.
I have intense sensory issues with my hair, it wasn't just an aesthetic choice. Way to make my life harder.
"you're going to have to marry someone tall so they can get their arms around you" thanks mom.
I had an ex tell me it was a good thing my parents were dead. That was the last day I ever saw her.
My dad told me on my way to school that I was the responsible one for ruining his marriage. Y’all should know that I was clinically depressed by then. A shot would hurt less.
My mom recently told me that she never would have married my emotionally abusive step-dad (ex step-dad now) if it wasn't for me. My BFF is catholic, her parents were "Staunch Catholics" (y'all know the type) and wouldn't let her come to our house because my mom was just living there with her boyfriend, they were "living in sin". So my mom married him. She swears she did it for that reason, and that reason alone, and not because she wanted a father for my little brother who was 3 at the time. Thanks for trying to add that guilt mom. I don't know why she's so manipulative like that. It's been 30 years ffs.
Dad to 12 year old me for forgetting to close a gate at the end of a 12 hour work day, "YOU ARE A WORTHLESS PIECE OF S**T".
Saw a FB post from my dad and step mom referring to their son as their favorite. My dad and I don’t have a relationship (my choosing after he was a a*s my whole childhood). It still hurt seeing that. Especially since he is pretty much father of the year to my stepsister and half brother.
During a fight my mother called me an "unwanted bastard child" because I calmly asked her why she thought it was okay to scream at me in public. The whole neighbourhood probably heard.
When I was married to my first wife met younger friends at work and started going out on the weekends and then one-day she left before I got home from work without saying where she was or when she was coming back........ I called about midnight to see if I can make sure she was alright and she answered screaming "what do you want from me!" I knew at that moment it was over.
“You’d be really pretty if you weren’t fat” - random youtube comment left on a vid i made when i was 12. I was 5’6 and maybe 160lbs-170lbs.
I am now 26, 178lbs, and just happy I’m here and healthy.
I started thinking of myself as "fat" as young as SEVEN YEARS OLD. I have body image issues to this day. It's so disgusting that little girls are still being made to feel the same way 30+ years later.
Same. I still remember my mom telling me “you really don’t need that” when I wanted a couple cookies after dinner once. I’m 5’10” and 130lbs now and I still struggle to eat or keep weight on, and it started with her comments when I was a kid
Load More Replies...Yep. Starting at 14 I would hear "you're pretty enough to f**k, but not pretty enough to date." That kinda thing wrecks a person.
I've heard that a few times, it really messes with you.. or once, while making out "if you lost some weight, we could start dating" excuse me?! We're kissing, I thought we were dating! High school was a terrible time.
Load More Replies...I turned the comments off on my youtube vids. Instead, anyone who REALLY wanted to track me down and comment via email will find it easy to do so, I make you work for it!
"You look like you've gained 30 pounds since you moved out." This was a month after said move. And it was only 5 pounds.
Did poor at Physics once and the teacher said, “Such a tall boy, no wonder his brain is in his knees.”
I can’t even remember some of the things said to me but probably my “dad” telling me “I don’t have to take care of you, you are not my child, not my responsibility, I gave you up, stop trying to get to know me” as he’s raising his other children with another woman and has never once gotten to know me.
My dad called me worthless at one point and some other choice words. Then later on in life my mom said, "I love you, but I don't like you".
I adored my parents my whole life and those two bullets have never stopped hurting.
I got the "i love you but don't like you always" a lot from my mother as well. It seemed so normal at the time I didn't realize it until I was unhappily married and my ex would say she liked me "some of the time". Hold up!!!! You don't like me???? Giving the caveat that "I love you" when you are sorta honor bound to love your child and/or spouse does NOT make this ok. You don't like me? Flake off.
I have said that " I love my mother, but I don't like the person she has become" while discussing with others, the lack of relationship I have with my mom. I wouldn't tell my mother that, even though she has hurt me in so many ways from making fun of me and calling me disgusting when I finally came out to her or even mentioned anything about the girl I was dating, to lying and stealing from me. I'm sorry that your mother and your ex spouse were/are such crappy human beings.
Load More Replies... “I won’t be surprised if you shoot up the school”
I did absolutely nothing to prompt that remark. I’ve also gotten a lot of negative remarks from my mom and grandma but i’m used to them so it didn’t really affect me as much.
Off topic but I just checked out your profile page (sad face) and saw your news (happy face) and wanted to say I'm very happy for you both! I hope everything goes great for you both! 🖖
Load More Replies..." I won't be surprised if you d1e alone in a nursing home" ;-D
Ok so I’ve actually never told anyone this but here goes.
When I was younger my parents were going through a very rough custody battle with me right in the middle of it. I lived with my mom and My dad was very emotionally and verbally abusive, he would literally interrogate me so he could have something to take my mom to court with. My mom fought like hell to keep me and I wanted to be with her my dad however thought otherwise. He would take her to court so many times (I’ve only ever been present once at these court sessions) but this one day ( I forget what exactly was going on ) but we were at home and my mom was venting and she said “I won’t deal with this again (talking about court) I’ll just pack your bags for you and you can go live with him.” I remember being very hurt but I didn’t show it. I felt like she didn’t care what she would be sending me too, that I wasn’t worth all the time she spent trying to keep me away from him. I questioned her love for me and if that love had faded, I remember it but we haven’t talked about it since, I don’t even know if I want to talk about it.
Edit: she never actually followed through with what she said.
I'm in my 50's and I can still remember like it was yesterday that sometimes when my mom and dad were fighting, she would call me out of my room and say "Tell your father if I divorce him and the court asks who you want to live with it will be me and he will be all alone by his miserable self!" and I would just stand there because I didn't want to say it or have to choose, then she would yell at me to "Get out of here, you are no help!" Even thinking about it is still traumatic and my parents had a mostly loving marriage that lasted over 50 years until his death... mom just would get fight dirty because she knew my dad loved me and she used me as a p@wn in big arguments. (Why does bp censor p*a*w*n?)
As the love of my life was walking away, i said i love you.
she said - i know you do.
and she was gone.
30 years ago and she still pops up in my dreams a few times a year. love stinks. :).
if she didn't turn around, it's best to let her go, and find someone who says it back. :)
I told my mom in an argument that she should’ve had me aborted… she agreed with me… I was 16-17.
My ex boyfriend told me I “used to be hotter” while we were having s*x.
"Hope your plane crashes on the way home." I work out of town to provide for my family. "I don't love you anymore." "I want a 3rd child just not by you". All from my spouse.
It was the truth, but it was that I was an alcoholic. Hurt bad.
I’m a recovering alcoholic. I remember really needing help from my parents and all I got was my stepdad jabbing his finger into my chest while yelling “YOU’RE JUST AN ADDICT! YOU’RE NOTHING BUT AN ADDICT!” He was so disgusted and his face showed it. I’ll never forget that, it still hurts. Ironically I started drinking to cover up pain from a traumatic childhood (I even ran away when I was in high school and lived in my friend’s basement for 2 years because my home life was so bad).
I'm gonna play devil's advocate and say, whatever it takes. We don't realize (or sometimes care) how our substance abuse affects other people. Sometimes it takes a good swift (verbal) backhand to wake us up to that reality. So yeah, if it gets you to seek help, alls fair. I "woke up" on my own the THIRD time I had to call an ambulance for my (at the time) best friend when he couldn't even get himself up to go to the bathroom. We were hammered all the time and I mean ALL the time and as soon as the ambulance pulled away with him I had my "moment of clarity" and made my own phone calls. It might hurt your feelings to hear the truth, but when the fog clears you will understand what you put your loved ones through.
My ex husband told me once that he hoped our daughters didn’t turn out anything like me. This was 8+ years ago and they’re both exactly like me so.
If you weren’t my daughter I would’ve given up on you a long time ago.
Depending on the circumstances with this one, I feel as though the parent is just venting. Some children really do give their parents hell, which continues on well past the age of 18 and into adulthood for many. Everyone has a breaking point but it still seems as though they are continually supporting their daughter. Which lucky for her because otherwise they would have given up her a long time ago, if she wasn't their daughter.
"You're ugly and under developed." I was 10 years old and to this day it still gets to me.
This was said to me by a family friend's daughter, she was like 14.
“You’re annoying” - my best friend (at the time) told me this in middle school and it was her only reason for bullying me. Those words were the end of our friendship and the beginning of my many current insecurities 🙃.
We really need psychological tests before we allow people to have children. Yes, blabla, slippery slope yaddayadda. So some adults wouldn't get what they want, boohoo - it would prevent chidlren from enduring all this. I just want to hug all of them, and be Mom to half of the OPs, just so they can feel properly loved, as they deserve.
You're right that it's a slippery slope. How long would it be before the person or people making the decision on who could or could not have children made the decisions based on something other than this psychological test, like ethnicity, or physical appearance? Or if the test was rigged in the beginning to control who could or could not have children by other criteria?
Load More Replies...I've said this on BP before, I just don't understand parents who are mean to their kids. Whether you planned that child or not, they are your blood. I couldn't ever imagine saying anything as horrific as these things to my daughter. JHC
The worst thing that was ever said to me wasn't bad because of the words, but the delivery. I had just revealed to my parents that I was having suicidal ideation. My mom sighed heavily, rolled her eyes, and said in the voice of a martyr, "Do you need to talk to somebody?" If I had tried to confront her about her tone, she would have gaslighted me and said she didn't say it like that, and that the words of her response made her a caring mother. ...My dad said nothing at all.
Just to throw it out there, if any of y'all want to disown your parents, I'll be happy to informally adopt y'all. Sometimes your "found family" is healthier and better than the one you're born into. 💗🤗☺️
I was friends with this guy for years, supported him with a sympathetic ear whenever he talked about his depression and how hard his relationship with his parents was and how he kept losing jobs and friends who kept inexplicably turning on him, etc etc. (which he did all the goddamn time). Then one day, right out of the blue, he tells me "you're not exactly a nice person". I was absolutely devastated. I reached out to someone who immediately advised me to ditch him. I took their advice, not even bothering to get the stuff I'd loaned him back, and only later realised that he was being an a*****e to me because I had repeatedly refused to sleep with him.
These stories are the main reason I don't want children! My mother is a raging lunatic and there are plenty of mental illnesses on her side; I have BPD and my brother has Bipolar 1, GAD and something else I forget the name of. Both of us are the result from her genes and choice in men (we are half siblings). I don't trust myself that I won't be like her. I don't hate myself and I don't hate life but in a way, I have resentment that she actually decided that it was a good idea to have another child (me) after my brother was born. Not sure latter makes any sense.
If it was possible I’d ban the word “ugly”. It is one of the foulest words in the dictionary.
"I don't want to stand next to the dog!" -- My 5th grade bully when the teacher asked him to stand next to me. F**k you, Cedric. I hope you have a daughter who is just like me.
Why would you wish a child who's a good person (like you) on an asshat like Cedric? Wish one like him on him.
Load More Replies...We really need psychological tests before we allow people to have children. Yes, blabla, slippery slope yaddayadda. So some adults wouldn't get what they want, boohoo - it would prevent chidlren from enduring all this. I just want to hug all of them, and be Mom to half of the OPs, just so they can feel properly loved, as they deserve.
You're right that it's a slippery slope. How long would it be before the person or people making the decision on who could or could not have children made the decisions based on something other than this psychological test, like ethnicity, or physical appearance? Or if the test was rigged in the beginning to control who could or could not have children by other criteria?
Load More Replies...I've said this on BP before, I just don't understand parents who are mean to their kids. Whether you planned that child or not, they are your blood. I couldn't ever imagine saying anything as horrific as these things to my daughter. JHC
The worst thing that was ever said to me wasn't bad because of the words, but the delivery. I had just revealed to my parents that I was having suicidal ideation. My mom sighed heavily, rolled her eyes, and said in the voice of a martyr, "Do you need to talk to somebody?" If I had tried to confront her about her tone, she would have gaslighted me and said she didn't say it like that, and that the words of her response made her a caring mother. ...My dad said nothing at all.
Just to throw it out there, if any of y'all want to disown your parents, I'll be happy to informally adopt y'all. Sometimes your "found family" is healthier and better than the one you're born into. 💗🤗☺️
I was friends with this guy for years, supported him with a sympathetic ear whenever he talked about his depression and how hard his relationship with his parents was and how he kept losing jobs and friends who kept inexplicably turning on him, etc etc. (which he did all the goddamn time). Then one day, right out of the blue, he tells me "you're not exactly a nice person". I was absolutely devastated. I reached out to someone who immediately advised me to ditch him. I took their advice, not even bothering to get the stuff I'd loaned him back, and only later realised that he was being an a*****e to me because I had repeatedly refused to sleep with him.
These stories are the main reason I don't want children! My mother is a raging lunatic and there are plenty of mental illnesses on her side; I have BPD and my brother has Bipolar 1, GAD and something else I forget the name of. Both of us are the result from her genes and choice in men (we are half siblings). I don't trust myself that I won't be like her. I don't hate myself and I don't hate life but in a way, I have resentment that she actually decided that it was a good idea to have another child (me) after my brother was born. Not sure latter makes any sense.
If it was possible I’d ban the word “ugly”. It is one of the foulest words in the dictionary.
"I don't want to stand next to the dog!" -- My 5th grade bully when the teacher asked him to stand next to me. F**k you, Cedric. I hope you have a daughter who is just like me.
Why would you wish a child who's a good person (like you) on an asshat like Cedric? Wish one like him on him.
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