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“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them

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“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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#1

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them My dad once said he wished he was working late the night I was conceived.

I told him mom said he was.

NotAnAIOrAmI , cottonbro studio /pexels Report

Final score:

179points

Yayheterogeneity 1 month ago

Ha!

64points

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#2

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them 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.

MaximusVulcanus , RDNE Stock project /pexels Report

Final score:

175points

Spencer's slave no longer 1 month ago

Strong men cry. Strong men show true emotions regardless of anyone who says "only weak men cry".

125points

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#3

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them 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.

Incywincyspoder , Keira Burton b/pexels Report

Final score:

175points

Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 1 month ago

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!

54points

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#4

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them 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.

Bo-bop , cottonbro studio/pexels Report

Final score:

170points

SheamusFanFrom1987 1 month ago

Only one ugly person I see here, and it ain't OP.

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#5

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them 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.

oprah-simpfrey , Tima Miroshnichenko/pexels Report

Final score:

133points

Jennifer Smith 1 month ago

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. 😔

17points

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#6

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them 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."

MistressAlabaster , Photo By: Kaboompics.com/pexels Report

Final score:

113points

Earonn - 1 month ago

Apart from everything else: who TF still thinks that women are obliged to "give" anyone grandkids? WE. ARE. NO. BREEDING. MARES. FFS!

173points

Space Invader 1 month ago

In addition to that: We don't "give" someone kids. They're human beings, not objects.

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justanotherweirdo 1 month ago

Sadly, too many people still think that

5points

Chauncy Franklin 1 month ago

Yes to this 100 x;s over. Neither of my adult children want their own. I assure them I am good with it. Of course if they change their minds I will support them but the FACT is it is their choice. Not mine or my husband's. I am so impressed with this next generation's ability to put a lot of thought into it. Most of us just thought it was the next step.

1point

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Disgruntled Pelican 1 month ago

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."

10points

S Bow 1 month ago

Yay, good for them 👏 🙂

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Leslie B 1 month ago

I've not been able to have children due to medical issues for myself and my husband, my parents never made me feel bad for it. My brother didn't either which is surprising given his narcissistic personality

4points

Scott Rackley 1 month ago

So, how long was your step sister unconscious?

3points

Sunny Day 1 month ago (edited)

Should have replied: "He was ok with not having grandkids. He was afraid they'd turn out like you."

3points

nottheactualphoto 1 month ago

Nice!

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Blondie23 1 month ago

man... screw your step sister.... she sounds like a trash human being!

3points

Rayne OfSalt 1 month ago

Step-sister should have been slugged in the mouth for that.

2points

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 month ago

"No... because I wouldn't want to expose my children to such a hateful person as yourself. "

1point

Captive 1 month ago

You ever wanted to puke on someone via internet?

1point

Maureen Rouse 3 weeks ago

Your step-sister was a b I t c h!

0points

StrangeTrout 3 weeks ago

Wow. Reminds me of a complete turd b***h I once worked with who on returning from maternity leave said to a very senior colleague who had had several miscarriages and was now adopting, that she was "sorry you have to settle for second best, giving birth was the most amazing experience". I really hope she had a major prolapse in the middle of Sainsbury's

0points

Sarah Matsoukis 1 month ago

I would be in prison for my reaction

0points

S 1 month ago

I've heard some women say awful things to other women about kids. Or lack of kids.

0points

Leg less In Minneapolis 1 month ago

Give me her address and I will go smack her for you! That dumb bit@h

0points

Ian Rose 1 month ago

Meow! That is just catty

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#7

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them “It’s a boy or it’s abortion. I’m not raising a daughter.” I miscarried two days later.

Less_Squirrel5750 , Timur Weber/pexels Report

Final score:

105points

Yayheterogeneity 1 month ago

I hope you kicked the a*****e out.

120points

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#8

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them 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.

IBeatUpLiamNeeson , cottonbro studio /pexels Report

Final score:

104points

The pigeon 1 month ago

Lmao, that last line is perfect

67points

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#9

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them "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….

Ernigirl , Nicola Barts /pexels Report

Final score:

97points

Fat Harry (Oi / You) 1 month ago

Given gender is dictated by the sperm, and he provided the sperm... I'd say this one is on him.

127points

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#10

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them 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.

WeatherKat3262I , Polina Zimmerman/pexels Report

Final score:

92points

Yayheterogeneity 1 month ago

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.

38points

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#11

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them “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.

Flimsy_Wait_8235 , Pavel Danilyuk /pexels Report

Final score:

91points

Yayheterogeneity 1 month ago

What trauma religion can cause... She sounds deathly afraid. Religion should be freeing, not caging people in traumatizing behaviours.

90points

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#12

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them 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.

most-royal-chemist , Photo By: Kaboompics.com/pexels Report

Final score:

88points

Yayheterogeneity 1 month ago

She is worth hating. I hate her, too.

64points

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#13

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them 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.

Ice9Vonneguy , Pavel Danilyuk/pexels Report

Final score:

85points

ILoveMySon 1 month ago

Success being the best revenge.

53points

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#14

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...

Final score:

85points

SheamusFanFrom1987 1 month ago

Luck is only 1%. The rest is what you make of the situation and how it shapes you.

30points

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#15

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.

Final score:

79points

bbgorilla 1 month ago

I'm so sorry

37points

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#16

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them I was in a car accident in 2014, my ex said to me “I just wish you died, it would be so much easier”.

Alternative-Shape-59 , RDNE Stock project/pexels Report

Final score:

75points

bbgorilla 1 month ago

Glad he's an ex!

55points

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#17

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them "No wonder your birth parents didn't want you" - my foster mother.

Feeling-Produce-8520 , Jansel Ferma/pexels Report

Final score:

74points

Sergy Yeltsen 1 month ago

Your foster mother needs to be reported. And a good smack upside the head with a cast iron frypan.

90points

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#18

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!

Final score:

68points

Jennifer Smith 1 month ago

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?!?

33points

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#19

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them 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.".

anon , Polina Zimmerman/pexels Report

Final score:

66points

Earonn - 1 month ago

Yes, monster, you should. Then OP could have had proper parents, not a c**t in a dress.

77points

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#20

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them "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.

scipio0421 , Mikhail Nilov/pexels Report

Final score:

63points

Earonn - 1 month ago

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.

32points

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#21

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them *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.

JustAnOldRoadie , RDNE Stock project/pexels Report

Final score:

62points

Earonn - 1 month ago

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.

37points

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#22

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them When I was young, my mom said holidays are better without me.

somewhereoutthere217 , Monstera Production/pexels Report

Final score:

59points

Yayheterogeneity 1 month ago

Narcissistic b***h.

45points

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#23

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them 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.”.

catinnameonly , cottonbro studio/pexels Report

Final score:

57points

Beak Hookage 1 month ago

With a mother like that, it's quite the mystery that she tried to off herself as a kid.

39points

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#24

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them "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.

anon , Kindel Media /pexels Report

Final score:

56points

Yayheterogeneity 1 month ago

Yes, yes he did!

35points

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#25

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them 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.

frenchknot , cottonbro studio/pexels Report

Final score:

56points

Yayheterogeneity 1 month ago

She is just someone you don't need to care about. NC and I hope your father divorced her.

34points

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#26

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them "I cheated on you, and the only reason I'm telling you is because I'm pregnant."

anon , Nataliya Vaitkevich/pexels Report

Final score:

52points

The pigeon 1 month ago

Bruh, the audacity

24points

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#27

'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.

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Final score:

52points

cerinamroth 1 month ago

A beautiful tale of revenge. Well done on continuing your education and keeping your head high.

25points

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#28

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.

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Final score:

49points

Yayheterogeneity 1 month ago

B***h.

26points

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#29

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them 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”.

Parsley-Hefty7945 , Darina Belonogova/pexels Report

Final score:

47points

Space Invader 1 month ago

"With friends like you, who can blame me?"

36points

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#30

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them 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.

WiscoDJ920 , RDNE Stock project /pexels Report

Final score:

46points

tracy black 1 month ago

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

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#31

My mom told me it was my fault after SA.

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Final score:

46points

Earonn - 1 month ago

Why women of all can't show solidarity to SA victims is beyond me.

57points

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#32

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.

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Final score:

45points

sarcastic cat 1 month ago (edited)

Leave him!!! Why TF are you still married to an a$$hole like this?

85points

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#33

"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.

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Final score:

45points

The Shark Premium 1 month ago

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.

10points

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#34

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them 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.

chaoticbutterflyyy , Kampus Production/pexels Report

Final score:

44points

Enuya 1 month ago

Unless the kid doused his father with radioactive water or somehing, how the hell could he cause a cancer?

40points

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#35

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.

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Final score:

41points

SheamusFanFrom1987 1 month ago

AKA NOT better yet...

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#36

"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.

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Final score:

22points

Beak Hookage 1 month ago

I hope this poor guy got the kids he longed for once he'd ditched that POS.

10points

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#37

"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.

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Final score:

22points

MaryHadaLittleLamb 1 month ago

How sad, poor kid.

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#38

“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.

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Final score:

22points

CrazyKnitter 1 month ago (edited)

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.

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#39

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.

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Final score:

22points

Yayheterogeneity 1 month ago

Narcissistic behavior.

16points

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#40

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.

Final score:

21points

Orysha 1 month ago (edited)

Doctors like that should be automatically banned.

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#41

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.

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Final score:

20points

Lsai Aeon 1 month ago

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.

16points

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#42

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.

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Final score:

20points

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 month ago

That last sentence says it all. :-D

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#43

"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.

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Final score:

20points

Earonn - 1 month ago

Good. Anger is the correct emotion. OP shouldn't feel sad but see their mother as the poor excuse of even just human excrement that she was.

15points

#44

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.

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Final score:

18points

#45

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...

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Final score:

18points

Susan 1 month ago

If he wasn't like that before could it be possible he might be getting dementia?

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#46

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them 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."

Total-Bag-8973 , Tirachard Kumtanom/pexels Report

Final score:

18points

Mark Stewart 1 month ago

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.

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#47

My husband (now ex) called me "big and loose" when resuming intimacy after the birth of our child.

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Final score:

18points

Ann Mohrmann 1 month ago

Glad you're now loose from him!

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#48

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them "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.

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Final score:

16points

Yayheterogeneity 1 month ago

I hate that someone can just say something that haunts you your whole life and they can just forget about it.

11points

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#49

I’m meant to be alone.

Final score:

16points

Lorraine R 1 week ago

Me too. Better than a sh!t relationship.

0points

#50

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.

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Mike F 1 month ago

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.

0points

#51

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them 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.

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Final score:

15points

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#52

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them "Despite not being good-looking, you are so good at studies". I don't know whether I must feel hurtful or not.

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Final score:

15points

cerinamroth 1 month ago

"Even though you're breathing, I can't decide if you're brain-dead or not"

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#53

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.

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Final score:

15points

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 month ago

I woulda said good and then gone and done it.

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#54

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them "you're going to have to marry someone tall so they can get their arms around you" thanks mom.

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Final score:

15points

#55

I had an ex tell me it was a good thing my parents were dead. That was the last day I ever saw her.

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#56

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.

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Final score:

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Cori 1 month ago

My mother said the exact same thing to me as she was shoving me out of a still moving vehicle. I had missed the bus because I was too depressed to get out of bed and she had to drive me to school.

4points

#57

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".

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Lo Kindred 1 month ago

Wait-12 yr old and 12 hour workday? What?

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#58

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.

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Final score:

14points

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#59

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.

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Ann Mohrmann 1 month ago

And the whole neighborhood knows she's s**t.

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#60

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.

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Final score:

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#61

“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.

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Final score:

14points

Beak Hookage 1 month ago

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.

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#62

"You're too ugly for this industry" - when I tried to be a hairdresser.

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Final score:

13points

#63

“I Will Never Get Over That”: 35 People Share The Most Hurtful Words Ever Said To Them "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.

korli74 , Anna Tarazevich/pexels Report

Final score:

13points

Yayheterogeneity 1 month ago

Feel good pounds!!

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#64

Did poor at Physics once and the teacher said, “Such a tall boy, no wonder his brain is in his knees.”

Final score:

12points

Beak Hookage 1 month ago

What an odd thing to say.

8points

#65

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.

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Final score:

12points

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 month ago

good riddance. No contact, and zero f's given.

1point

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#66

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.

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Final score:

12points

Stephanie A Mutti 1 month ago

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.

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#67

“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.

Final score:

12points

Ranger Kanootsen says GOODBYE! 1 month ago

I was told this too!!

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#68

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.

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Final score:

11points

Jac Carr 1 month ago

I'm so sorry she said that; she wasn't angry with you, you were just there when she was venting. If you think it would help you, bring it up with her. She fought so hard for you, there's no way she really meant those words

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#69

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. :).

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Final score:

11points

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 month ago

if she didn't turn around, it's best to let her go, and find someone who says it back. :)

1point

#70

I told my mom in an argument that she should’ve had me aborted… she agreed with me… I was 16-17.

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11points

DaisyBee 1 month ago

Happened to me too, except my dad said it unprompted. It’s a pain unlike many others. I don’t think you should have been aborted, OP. You have immense value

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#71

My ex boyfriend told me I “used to be hotter” while we were having s*x.

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11points

DaisyBee 1 month ago

“And you used to be bigger. Seriously, is it even in?”

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#72

"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.

Final score:

11points

Borderline Panda 1 month ago

Psycho

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#73

"Where are your friends? You don't have any friends" - My Father.

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10points

#74

It was the truth, but it was that I was an alcoholic. Hurt bad.

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Tiger 1 month ago

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).

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#75

"She's a fat lazy cow." Said by step brother and agreed on by full brother.

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10points

#76

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.

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#77

If you weren’t my daughter I would’ve given up on you a long time ago.

Final score:

10points

FoxEcoLimaIndiaCharlieIndiAlfa 1 month 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.

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#78

"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.

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9points

#79

“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 🙃.

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Stephanie A Mutti 1 month ago

Not your best friend at all.

3points

Miguel Ordoñez

Struggling writer by day. Frustrated jazz drummer by night. Space Cowboy 24/7.

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Ieva Pečiulytė

I'm a Visual Editor for Bored Panda. I’m also an analog collage artist. My love for images and experience in layering goes well with both creating collages by hand and working with digital images as an Editor. When I’m not using my kitchen area as an art studio I also do various experiments making my own cosmetics or brewing kombucha. When I’m not at home you would most definitely find me attending a concert or walking my dog.

I'm a Visual Editor for Bored Panda. I’m also an analog collage artist. My love for images and experience in layering goes well with both creating collages by hand and working with digital images as an Editor. When I’m not using my kitchen area as an art studio I also do various experiments making my own cosmetics or brewing kombucha. When I’m not at home you would most definitely find me attending a concert or walking my dog.

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bbgorilla 1 month ago

I just wanna give all y'all hugs

20points

Beak Hookage 1 month ago

Me too. :(

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Earonn - 1 month ago

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.

15points

Papa 1 month ago

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?

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Mama Clare 1 month ago

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

14points

Ash 1 month ago (edited)

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.

2points

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 month ago

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. 💗🤗☺️

2points

Carrie B 1 month ago

Well that was fuking brutal.

2points

dancebunny 1 month ago

If it was possible I’d ban the word “ugly”. It is one of the foulest words in the dictionary.

2points

Enlee Jones 1 month ago

"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.

2points

Lyoness 1 month ago

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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Beak Hookage 1 month ago

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.

2points

Schnitzel 1 month ago (edited)

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.

2points

Doctor Strange 1 month ago

Take your pick. The time my father told me, after seeing a report card that had 3 C's on it, "Get out of my sight, I don't even want to look at you, you make me sick." My first girlfriend, who told me she was cheating on me, and how much better the other guy was than me. Or my second girlfriend who admitted she was deliberately trying to hurt me enough that I'd commit suicide.

1point

Chris Vassilopoulos 2 weeks ago

My heart really goes out to all of you.

0points

Gracie Mae 3 weeks ago

For the life of me, I will NEVER understand why parents treat their children like this and say things like this to them...and I grew up with one. Didn't like it much when I sat down with pen in hand and wrote out all the 'stuff' I had to deal with from them as I grew up. Funny how they hate being called out on their sh!t, huh? I was the dutiful daughter when death was at their doorstep, but there's not a lot I miss. And for some reason I feel guilty about that, even though I know I shouldn't.

0points

Pizzaking, village burner. 3 weeks ago

I don’t remember any specific sentences… There probably are some that I chose to forget. I was bullied throughout middle school (American living in country “A”). There was no reason for it, but fear of foreigners is baked into the culture there. I was always outcast for no reason. I became good at everything, and I mean everything. I did everything I could to be accepted. But I there was one thing I couldnt be best at, with that being sports/physical activity. That was weaponized against me for years. Then later, I was diagnosed with asthma, and I was like thank god it’s not my fault. Turns out it didn’t mean anything. A few months later at gym we were running laps, and the teacher asked the group of bullies to count to make sure I did enough. Everyone knew I had asthma, and everyone knew how those people treated me. So I do it, and they say I didnt do enough. The gym teacher, yells at me and makes me do the whole thing again. I was dizzy and everything was blurry at the end (part 1)

0points

Pizzaking, village burner. 3 weeks ago

And it took me at least 15 minutes to catch my breath. This is just one of many similar stories. I was bullied for every flaw I showed. We had to leave the country which is a whole other pile of trauma that I wont get into. I attempted suicide 3 times. Each time more drastic then the last. I should have died but I didnt. Today I now live in country “B” and I am looking back at all this. I am now conventionally attractive, especially for my age, good at almost everything (yay?) and have pushed myself to overcome my asthma. But unfortunately I do not feel better. I just (re)started high school (long story) and am in an amazing class. But, every day when I look in the mirror I only see my flaws. Whenever I make the smallest mess up, I beat myself up relentlessly. I overthink every situation until it is at it’s worst. I ignore all of my strengths because I tell myself everyone sees me as stupid, because I don’t speak language “B” fluently yet. I have lived here for 3 months and (part 2)

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Anne Glare 3 weeks ago

It's taken me years to reverse the little voice in my head from the emotional abuse from my mother. She was physically abusive as well but the emotional abuse has taken me YEARS to deal with.

0points

ronniebeaton00 3 weeks ago

I was six years old, had recently lost all my hair to alopecia, wouldn't be diagnosed as dyslexic for another three years, and yet according to my teacher I was "stupid and lazy".

0points

xolitaire 1 month ago (edited)

For reasons I don't know my violin teacher had a strong dislike for me. I mean - I was literally a kid (I started when I was eight) and only saw her twice a week, to this day I have no idea what her problem with me was. After several years of her being rude to me, I finally asked my parents if I could quit violin lessons and they agreed. After my very last lesson with that teacher her final words to me were "You know, you quitting was probably for the best because even after all these years of lessons I still can't tell if you have any talent at all." I WAS THIRTEEN. I hope you rot in hell lady.

0points

Brenda Krotzer 1 month ago

My husband of 42 yrs who took all my expensive jewelry (don't know where it is), then tells me I'm a greedy f×××ing b***h (still with)

0points

Knucklehead 1 month ago

I got 2. My mom would drink and continously tell me how she wishes she would've had an abortion, or that I should kill myself. The other was a great friend that after my girlfriend of 14 years passed away from a pulmonary embolism told me I should quit being depressed and just get over it.

0points

Rae Reyn 1 month ago

I can pin point the moment my struggle with ED started to when my mom said "huh, you're starting to get fat." a week after I quit boxing for the first time.

0points

Emalyn 1 month ago

A few years after our son died, my mother-in-law was questioning why my husband still felt depressed. She said, "Aren't you over that by now?!"

0points

Lyoness 1 month ago

According to my incubator it was my fault my parents divorced (I was in my mid 20s and had been out of the house since she kicked me out at age 18). The last conversation we had I told her I was going NC, and she assured me that without her I would end up on the street, homeless and a bag lady. I was early 30s, happily married with kids and a healthy income. She projected a lot. It's been 18 years since we spoke and I've never regretted the decision.

0points

Tonyah Mcanelly 1 month ago

These things are just awful things to say to people i could never tell a child any of these things that these people heard as children. When my kids were younger and people started to bully them I always told them . people are mean to others because they are insecure and have things goin on with their lives that have nothing to do with them . So when people started to harras them I told them to reply. " Im sorry that your life is so bad that you have to make fun of me." This has shut many people down and my children werent really bullied after that comment . it sounds harsh but there is alot of truth to it.

0points

Sojourner 1 month ago

The most hurtful things my dad said to me is that I have no common sense.

0points

Krissy Bulan 1 month ago

When my son was a newborn, we were struggling financially and I asked my parents to borrow some money. My mom told me I should divorce my husband so I can get on welfare. I was speechless. I doubt my mom remembers saying that to me but I will never forget it. My son is now 14 years old, my husband and I are about to celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary, and we each make six figures...so joke's on them.

0points

BookFanatic 1 month ago

Not hurtful, because there'd be nothing wrong if she were correct, but my mom asked me if I was a lesbian because I'd never had a boyfriend. I was in my late 20s. Turns out I'm asexual...so she was closer than she realized.

0points

bbgorilla 1 month ago

I just wanna give all y'all hugs

20points

Beak Hookage 1 month ago

Me too. :(

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Earonn - 1 month ago

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.

15points

Papa 1 month ago

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?

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Mama Clare 1 month ago

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

14points

Ash 1 month ago (edited)

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.

2points

Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 month ago

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. 💗🤗☺️

2points

Carrie B 1 month ago

Well that was fuking brutal.

2points

dancebunny 1 month ago

If it was possible I’d ban the word “ugly”. It is one of the foulest words in the dictionary.

2points

Enlee Jones 1 month ago

"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.

2points

Lyoness 1 month ago

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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Beak Hookage 1 month ago

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.

2points

Schnitzel 1 month ago (edited)

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.

2points

Doctor Strange 1 month ago

Take your pick. The time my father told me, after seeing a report card that had 3 C's on it, "Get out of my sight, I don't even want to look at you, you make me sick." My first girlfriend, who told me she was cheating on me, and how much better the other guy was than me. Or my second girlfriend who admitted she was deliberately trying to hurt me enough that I'd commit suicide.

1point

Chris Vassilopoulos 2 weeks ago

My heart really goes out to all of you.

0points

Gracie Mae 3 weeks ago

For the life of me, I will NEVER understand why parents treat their children like this and say things like this to them...and I grew up with one. Didn't like it much when I sat down with pen in hand and wrote out all the 'stuff' I had to deal with from them as I grew up. Funny how they hate being called out on their sh!t, huh? I was the dutiful daughter when death was at their doorstep, but there's not a lot I miss. And for some reason I feel guilty about that, even though I know I shouldn't.

0points

Pizzaking, village burner. 3 weeks ago

I don’t remember any specific sentences… There probably are some that I chose to forget. I was bullied throughout middle school (American living in country “A”). There was no reason for it, but fear of foreigners is baked into the culture there. I was always outcast for no reason. I became good at everything, and I mean everything. I did everything I could to be accepted. But I there was one thing I couldnt be best at, with that being sports/physical activity. That was weaponized against me for years. Then later, I was diagnosed with asthma, and I was like thank god it’s not my fault. Turns out it didn’t mean anything. A few months later at gym we were running laps, and the teacher asked the group of bullies to count to make sure I did enough. Everyone knew I had asthma, and everyone knew how those people treated me. So I do it, and they say I didnt do enough. The gym teacher, yells at me and makes me do the whole thing again. I was dizzy and everything was blurry at the end (part 1)

0points

Pizzaking, village burner. 3 weeks ago

And it took me at least 15 minutes to catch my breath. This is just one of many similar stories. I was bullied for every flaw I showed. We had to leave the country which is a whole other pile of trauma that I wont get into. I attempted suicide 3 times. Each time more drastic then the last. I should have died but I didnt. Today I now live in country “B” and I am looking back at all this. I am now conventionally attractive, especially for my age, good at almost everything (yay?) and have pushed myself to overcome my asthma. But unfortunately I do not feel better. I just (re)started high school (long story) and am in an amazing class. But, every day when I look in the mirror I only see my flaws. Whenever I make the smallest mess up, I beat myself up relentlessly. I overthink every situation until it is at it’s worst. I ignore all of my strengths because I tell myself everyone sees me as stupid, because I don’t speak language “B” fluently yet. I have lived here for 3 months and (part 2)

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Anne Glare 3 weeks ago

It's taken me years to reverse the little voice in my head from the emotional abuse from my mother. She was physically abusive as well but the emotional abuse has taken me YEARS to deal with.

0points

ronniebeaton00 3 weeks ago

I was six years old, had recently lost all my hair to alopecia, wouldn't be diagnosed as dyslexic for another three years, and yet according to my teacher I was "stupid and lazy".

0points

xolitaire 1 month ago (edited)

For reasons I don't know my violin teacher had a strong dislike for me. I mean - I was literally a kid (I started when I was eight) and only saw her twice a week, to this day I have no idea what her problem with me was. After several years of her being rude to me, I finally asked my parents if I could quit violin lessons and they agreed. After my very last lesson with that teacher her final words to me were "You know, you quitting was probably for the best because even after all these years of lessons I still can't tell if you have any talent at all." I WAS THIRTEEN. I hope you rot in hell lady.

0points

Brenda Krotzer 1 month ago

My husband of 42 yrs who took all my expensive jewelry (don't know where it is), then tells me I'm a greedy f×××ing b***h (still with)

0points

Knucklehead 1 month ago

I got 2. My mom would drink and continously tell me how she wishes she would've had an abortion, or that I should kill myself. The other was a great friend that after my girlfriend of 14 years passed away from a pulmonary embolism told me I should quit being depressed and just get over it.

0points

Rae Reyn 1 month ago

I can pin point the moment my struggle with ED started to when my mom said "huh, you're starting to get fat." a week after I quit boxing for the first time.

0points

Emalyn 1 month ago

A few years after our son died, my mother-in-law was questioning why my husband still felt depressed. She said, "Aren't you over that by now?!"

0points

Lyoness 1 month ago

According to my incubator it was my fault my parents divorced (I was in my mid 20s and had been out of the house since she kicked me out at age 18). The last conversation we had I told her I was going NC, and she assured me that without her I would end up on the street, homeless and a bag lady. I was early 30s, happily married with kids and a healthy income. She projected a lot. It's been 18 years since we spoke and I've never regretted the decision.

0points

Tonyah Mcanelly 1 month ago

These things are just awful things to say to people i could never tell a child any of these things that these people heard as children. When my kids were younger and people started to bully them I always told them . people are mean to others because they are insecure and have things goin on with their lives that have nothing to do with them . So when people started to harras them I told them to reply. " Im sorry that your life is so bad that you have to make fun of me." This has shut many people down and my children werent really bullied after that comment . it sounds harsh but there is alot of truth to it.

0points

Sojourner 1 month ago

The most hurtful things my dad said to me is that I have no common sense.

0points

Krissy Bulan 1 month ago

When my son was a newborn, we were struggling financially and I asked my parents to borrow some money. My mom told me I should divorce my husband so I can get on welfare. I was speechless. I doubt my mom remembers saying that to me but I will never forget it. My son is now 14 years old, my husband and I are about to celebrate our 17th wedding anniversary, and we each make six figures...so joke's on them.

0points

BookFanatic 1 month ago

Not hurtful, because there'd be nothing wrong if she were correct, but my mom asked me if I was a lesbian because I'd never had a boyfriend. I was in my late 20s. Turns out I'm asexual...so she was closer than she realized.

0points

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