do you hate your parents?

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I have a neutral or cordial relationship to my parents and neither love nor hate them. I moved far away from them twenty years ago and I haven't seen them in five years time. If I meet them again, I would be fine with that. If I never meet them again, I would be fine with that too. They didn't care enough to make sure that I was okay when it should have been obvious to them that I was having a really hard time in school and no friends. I pay them the same attention now as they gave me back then.

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I love my parents but I do prefer my mom over my dad, even though that sounds terrible.

I get into arguments with my dad a lot, I don't think he fully understands me.

Hate? No, usually not but I can't claim to have much love for them either. They never really did anything to earn it and seemed somehow exempt from unconditional love. When we were kids old man was horrifically impatient and unpredictable. The old lady was frigid and indifferent. She is still an a**hole. Her biggest priority back then was keeping the old man from yelling at her. Three years ago my dad died unexpectedly of a massive stroke over a period of less than three days. It took me hardly no time to get over it and half of that grieving was faking it just to make it look "normal". When my dog died last year of old age I actually grieved much deeper and over a much longer period of time even though I knew her time was coming.

I can't say we did not have our good times together because we did on numerous occasions. Those occasions, however, did not outweigh the other bulllshit with them that I could write volumes on. They were not bad parents, but mediocre ones that were impossible to have any real attachment to. I thnk they wanted it that way since it's tidier and less complicated.

^If you switch "mother" and "father," that was my childhood. Except they were both fundamentalist Christians (of the worst flavor) who berated me and physically abused me (my mother usually for imaginary garbage, and my father for not fitting into his life routine) in the name of Jesus and for the sake of my soul. The most recent attempt at making peace with them ended very poorly, with accusations of demon possession from my mother and my father getting upset that I made my mother angry.

I love both my parents. They have been most supportive of me all my life. They provided for me the best childhood I could imagine in the environment I needed. They have always trusted me, and for that, I gave them literally no problems.

So, apparently 50 other members of WP (as of this writing) are now not "decent human beings" because they did not vote as you did in your poll?


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