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WilliamMinorsWords t1_itw5vvo wrote

I'm so sorry. It's not you, it's not your fault. Your mother sounds like a very selfish person, who is blaming her own failure as a mother on you.

Nothing anyone says it's going to make you feel better, but I'm a mom, and I'm giving you a long distance hug in place of your mom. I wish you well. Please know this is not your fault. Please try to look up.

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TheW83 t1_itw5ia5 wrote

Indeed. I was there when my daughter got her first core memory. We were walking along the road in my neighborhood and came across a squirrel who got flattened by a car. On our way back we saw crows picking at it and then a vulture came and took it away. She brought up that moment a lot over the following week and still references it to this dead. "Don't play in the road or you'll get squished like the squirrel."

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TuliBean t1_itvp650 wrote

If you're able to access therapy through school or if you are able to find someone, it'll help to start working with someone sooner than later. I didn't get any until 27, but it should have happened by 11 for me. I know it can be weird if they're at your school, but they are not blabbing it all around at all. I know that was a fear I had with the guidance counselors at my school, but they can Also help you catch some slack. And will be way more helpful when you go to apply to college, should you choose to go.

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TuliBean t1_itvof6i wrote

Moms are badass. Friend of mine had a kickers career an her ex cheated with an attorney who showed him how to takeall her money. She lost her job because the owner took another job, so while all that falls apart leaves her with a7 yr old and $5. Dad's can sometimes just totally divorce themselves from reality while Moms only wish they could long enough to pee in peace.

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TuliBean t1_itvmigo wrote

It's a lot to deal with for her too I'm sure. Just keep talking to her about how you feel and every once in a while make she knows you love her. It can get easy to get back to life and lose sight of the hard stuff parent do for us to make up for the one falling short. Just don't lose sleep over that part. Every woman knows there's a risk they're going to be raising the kids solo anymore.

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Intelligent-Web-9707 t1_itvlj8v wrote

Corporal punishment in the U.S is highly limited, unlike most of the world in which It's up to the parent unless it's actual injury. Just confused one little thing? Literally it changes your whole statement bro 😂 saying most of the world and only is not the same at all.

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TuliBean t1_itvlj2f wrote

When you are older, it will help to get him a little more. Didn't mean you're all compassionate about whatever, but you'll start to just see him as the fcked up adults they are. It's all going to come down to the story you tell yourself. You're over him and he can keep his money -that's my oldest brother, but he also wnt challenge my dad on anything. I do, but also for the FIRST time in adulthood my dad is helping me a fair bit financially as I deal with insane other shit (but also am helping him with some stuff too so it's ok with me). So instead of my dad's an Asshole, now it's that followed by 'because he left home tooo young, was 2 or more years younger than his peer, bullied, assaulted by other kids, then went to medical school at fsu where you are also treated like shit. So he made a lot of bad choices and has character flaws he won't allow himself to see and surfers because of it. He's probably very confused and I know is sad his kids aren't closer to him. Cry me a river, right? I know I am smart and resilient and there's a lot he did to make my childhood hard and ways he absolutely should have protected me, ways he's let me down. But It also helps me understand Parts of myself that need work, and now there is shit I will make sure to do as a parent and plenty to take note never to do. You can break the shtty dad,trauma cycle! Today just be glad and enjoy the parts of hs you can. You can't get away with some of its much longer. [As I thinking of being on random peoples property so my friend and I could roll down the massive hills. Super weird for me to do now.]

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Kat1eQueen t1_itvji60 wrote

Damn you must be incredibly stupid then because firstly, I am not American and secondly it is legal to hit your child in all of the US, it is even allowed for teachers to do it in almost half the states. And btw, I literally just confused one little thing, corporal punishment in schools is illegal in most of the world, sadly at home it isn't even if it is frowned upon by every person with a moral compass.

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whatshereforme OP t1_itvjbkt wrote

i can understand but ive been wanting to cut my father out my ife since july 2020 but my sister has been wanting to see him(only for money). i have cu thim out my life this july after his wedding that i forced to go to by my sister(who im thinking about also cutting out my life for a different reason) and i know it should hav estayed with my mom but it doesnt make a difference because he is OUT my life for good, it gave me a much more bigger reason to not let him eb in my life. also what he did while i was in 8th grade put a bad tol on my mental and emotional health and he would make me cry a lot during school and a bunch more things.

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