39 Times Parents Inflicted Emotional Damage On Their Kids With The Stupid Stuff They Told Them

I was hanging with a friend one evening and her mom and her were fighting and her mom said "I wish it was you that had died instead of your sister." I brought her over to my house to live for a while after that. No one deserves that.

I remember my dad telling my mom that we should put my autistic brother in a home. Right in earshot of my brother.

OMG! I'd be on board with that being criminalized.

It takes many years of therapy to get better after such terrible mental and emotional abuse. It never gets 100% better, though.

And this is what the anti-abortion folks will create with their insane bans. More homes where children were unwanted and are resented. More homes where they are verbally and emotionally abused because their parents couldn't opt out of having them and were (for whatever reason) forced to keep them, unwillingly. Because for the anti-abortion crowd, they don't think any further than "a baby was born". They never consider the life that child might have to endure, and disclaim all responsibility for creating the situation that allowed it to happen in the first place. Instead, they'd rather blame the parents, who were forced into parenthood. And why do they want to force them into parenthood? To punish them for having sex in the first place. It's an awful spiral of hate and retribution.

This one broke my heart. 😢

I hope that mom trips and falls off a cliff.

These stories are soooo "mommy dearest". Infuriating to say the least!

So glad she has you 💕

Meth and alcohol

Or my favorite: "That's great, but I think you could do better." With A's and B's. Which basically convinces a kid that nothing will ever be good enough, and more will always be expected from them, even when they give it their all.

if there's one thing I'm grateful for my mom it's that she was at least lenient about my report card marks. As long as I passed she was happy. If I was failing or struggling with a subject she was trying to help me improve. My Dad's wife, however, HUGE big deal about marks. She asked me one day what my grades were. I told her I got a 78% in math. She asked what letter that was. My school didn't go by letters. Just percentages. She didn't believe me then tried converting the 78 to a letter and figured it's a C and said that wasn't a good mark. 78% was the highest mark I had ever gotten in math, that I struggled with the most apart from science.

My parents go off at me for not having As, and then once I do have all As they start asking me why I dont have all 100% and they never once tell me that they're happy I got an A or 100%. If I mention it, it's always cause the subject is too easy. I don't see why I should put in my best effort at school when my best effort gets rewarded with being yelled at for a different reason

I have that happen to me. I got a B+, nope. A's. Have to be a perfect student. I've stopped trying at this point.

Told my son as long as you are trying your hardest that's good enough for me.

I don't get why people that feel this way have kids. I don't want my son to turn 18 and move out. i told him when he goes to college if he can go to the local university he can still live at home to save money as well. i know i have 8 more years, but I am dreading it.

That's awful. :(

I hope you are free of them & living your best life without them & that you went no contact as soon as you got away.

My father told this same thing to me and my siblings, which cause my oldest siblings to have a panic attacks a few days before her 18th birthday.

Holy s**t this one is bad! What an absolute piece of human excrement this woman is.

My mother said "I wanted a girl." Thanks, Mom.

Yep heard that myself. When I turned 16 I left. I'm 36 and I haven't spoke to any of my family since.

I had something similar with my grandmother. There was a storyline in a soap opera over here (Coronation St) where a woman was pregnant but she was in her late 30's and had found out her partner was cheating, she was contemplating an abortion but decided against it. My mum and her mum were talking about the story and my mum said 'I would have had the abortion', my grandmother snapped back 'You had the chance with Poppy but you didn't take it did you!' I was sat right there.

WHY HAVE KIDS IF YOU ABUSE

Heard it several times when growing up, from 5/6 years old.

Hope you are doing well.

How to make your child: 1. Atheist 2. Hate you with a burning passion

Heartbreaking.

When we got divorced I had a clause added that neither parent could bad mouth the other when our daughter was anywhere near that she could hear. Should have had my mother added...

My dad said that to me about my parent divorce.

It's probably a grandparent or aunt or uncle.

"You just need to exercise more." After I finally worked up the courage to ask for help. Also was told to "cheer up" and, at one point, "just breathe". I was having an asthma attack.

When I was 14: "You're not depressed. It's just cool to be depressed now (Kurt Cobain had just passed away). If you want to really be depressed, I can give you a reason." As if the 10 years of physical and psychological abuse that I'd already received hadn't already been enough.

So many times. I spent three months in rehab for this

SOOOO DAMAGING!

I've been told this a lot of times by mostly my younger brother but also my parents sometimes and honestly I can't say I was depressed, I haven't gone to a psychologist to talk to them or anything, but I was feeling really down and them telling me that my feelings are basically invalid to them was kinda sad😑

"You get what you invest in" is also great dating advice.

I would be murdered if I say that.

My narcissistic father, who was insecure about his weight (despite being a regular runner and in good shape), would project his insecurities onto me. I was anorexic all through high school and was constantly agonizing that I couldn't seem to lose weight.