Your Relationship with your Parents

Originally Posted by Lee-chan

Well, my relationship with my parents is non-existent. My family is the definition of "dysfunctional," and I grew up with neither my mother or father. (I was raised by my grandmother, which was a vicious cycle of neglect and conflict... =/) My whole view on the "family" concept, as such, is pretty skewed.

Same here. I have no relationship with either one of them and I have no real desire to have one with either one of them. Before you go telling me I should appreciate them and whatnot, please understand there's a valid reason for my indifference. It has nothing to do with past teen angst or anything like that. If you want to know, PM me.

I've basically been raising myself, I guess. My parents divorced when I was 10 and my father disappeared. I was left with my mother, who wasn't really there to begin with...

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by horseman85

Sigh . . . I know how it is. I'm Vietnamese so the parents are always after me about marks and stuff . . . This is prob why my relationship with the parents have suffered over the years. Trying to please the parents is so damned hard sometimes . . . Whenever I get bad marks, my parents gets into an argument with me . . . I never really get anything in the way of positive encouragement from them. It's mostly the "you're so damn stupid" and "why don't you use your fucking head?"

That being said, they do provide food and a roof over my head. So I'm grateful for that . . . but there's not really any closeness between us. It's really more of a stalemate than anything else.

Wow, how do you deal with all that negativity, especially from your parents?

There's nowhere I can't reach.