Someone Asked People To Share Their Dysfunctional Family Stories, And Here Are The 86 Wildest
Interview With ExpertPeople say you can't choose family, at least the one you're born into. But most Americans say their family life is quite satisfactory. According to a poll of almost 2,000 people, 74% of Americans would describe their family as happier than most.
The stories on this list would probably come from the other 26%. We've collected the wildest replies people have shared under two videos on TikTok: one about the most unhinged family lore and the other about the most vile things parents have done to them. These stories are proof that just because you're related by blood, doesn't mean you can't be horrible to each other.
Parents are often the source of crazy family lore, so, to know more about the effects of toxic parents and how to deal with them, Bored Panda reached out to psychotherapist Amanda Robins. She works with daughters of narcissistic mothers, and kindly agreed to share her expertise with us. Read her expert insights below!
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Told her abt my SA that happened when I was 4 and 8 yrs old. She told me "you must've liked it if you didn't say anything for this long" I packed my stuff and I left that same day.
I was severely abused by my mother. Think a child called it and that was my life. When I was sent to be with my grandma for certain times I was molested by my uncle for 5 years. When I came out and said something like, most of the family said I embarrassed them and then my mother said I deserved it. My dad was the only one who was there for me. I'm 37 as of Sunday (easter) and it still messes with me.
Geez, that book is horrifying. I'm so sorry you had to go through that.
Load More Replies...That's terrible. I wonder if maybe the mother was also SA'ed as a child?
Could well be...and she still believes it was her fault.
Load More Replies...I have never told my mother about my SA and I never will. When I was a kid and it was happening I was scared that she would throw me out onto the streets. She would almost certainly have said it was my fault; that I brought it on myself; that i deserved it; that I'm a troublemaker; an attention seeker; and how could I possibly say anything like that about her brother?
I'm sorry that happened to you I hope you are getting therapy.
Load More Replies...Yeah, I was r***d at 12, my mom called me a wh@re , said I deserved it.... Then beat me with a belt, then dad came in and finished up the beating. Great times. Only feel free now at 50 because both of them have passed on. Just one of my many delightful (not) stories.
I know of a woman that was SA and abused in any other possible horendous way by father and mother until she was 25 and could escape. A friend of hers confronted the father befor he died. All he syad was: She liked it. And thus is ine of thise cases where you din't beleave what you read and what it did to her till this day and cps send her back time after time.
My mom called ICE on my Mexican gf’s parents bc she was mad we were lesbians.
I don't like to bring politics into everything, especially US politics, but after seeing what is happening at the moment with the deportations, these are obviously the type of people who vote for Trump. Don't like something/someone? Just get rid of them. Seriously messed up!
Straight out of the Germany 1939 playbook.
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My parents are flat earth/anti vaxers and left me on the couch for 4 days with a 103 fever and abdominal pain bc they didnt want to take me to a dr, it was a cyst 🤓.
I have no sympathy for this group of people. You can't even claim religious exemption.
I feel sorry for children of ignorant parents. They love their children literally to death.
Oh s**t, I wonder if that's what gave me a fever this week. All the respiratory infection tests were negative (I didn't have any respiratory symptoms, just the fever) and I have had a cyst before, but I didn't realise it until it was 10cms big and twisting my ovary.
Only if the cyst was on your kidneys, liver or ovaries and got infected, otherwise unlikely
Load More Replies...You'll notice a pattern as you read through the entries on this list that most stories involve parents or stepparents. Our mothers and fathers are our first contact when it comes to experiencing love. The ways in which they show us that love or lack thereof often shapes us for life.
However, Melbourne-based psychotherapist Amanda Robins cautions against generalizing all bad parents as 'toxic'. "Most parents are well-meaning," she believes. "However, as a broad generalisation I would say that parents need to have the ability (and the capacity) to empathise with their child."
My alcoholic mother who didnt even take care of me my whole life asked if I would be a surrogate for her and her boyfriend.
My biological mom c*****d my skull open to (and I quote): “get the evil out of me”. Yes she’s lost parental rights, and I am now adopted.
I know I'm saying this without further context, but that sounds like mental illness
Erm no ! More like brain washed godsqaud lunatics , hmm ok yeah mental !
Load More Replies...They don't know how to BE human..... And unfortunately they never will. My mom and dad both died (1 Yr apart) believing their own bs. I am finally in a place of healing but it's tough undoing decades of abuse.
Load More Replies...Omg n I thought my father actually killing my mother when I was 8 mths old n blaming me all my life was bad this is inhuman ! n I’m a white witch , no one does this bar psychopaths hope mother was locked up for childabouse and you are ok xx blessed be
Please tell us he is in jail and you have no contact.
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My lil brother is schizophrenic and one time my VERY religious parents tried to give him an exorcism at home, they believed his mental disorder was demons. And I had to anonymously call the cops.
Good for you for recognizing they were wrong and getting help. Hope your brother is doing well now.
What is very interesting to me, is that despite all the Hollywood dramatization and outright lies..... The Catholic church will NOT perform an exorcism unless medical criteria have been met: eg full clearance from a specialist psychiatrist and/or full medical clearance from relevant Drs. Precisely because of these situations. Edit to add.... This was wrong on so many levels. OP was 1000 percent correct to take that action.
'Toxic' parents or parents who are 'not good enough' are on the whole unable to 'attune' to their child," Robins explains. "They are either too self-focused, too distracted, too stressed, or too traumatised themselves to be in the moment with their child and to keep the child’s mind in mind."
For these types of parents, their relationship with their children is often a quid pro quo. "Narcissistic parents generally need something from their children rather than allowing the child to be safely dependent on them," Robins notes. This can come in forms of wanting the child to behave in ways that reflects well on the parents to maintain their image as 'good parents'. Other times, they want love, affection, and attention from their children so they can feel powerful.
My step mom accused me of being romantically involved with my dad bc we joked around more than they do…..three times.
Sorry she is jealous of your relationship with your father. That's a her problem, not a you problem.
Me and my dad are always joking around, we have the same sense of humour. My mum just shakes her head at us.
I once said women weren't property and he STRONGLY disagreed.
Some people need a high five...to the face....with a brick
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My bio father cheated on my bio mom while she was pregnant with me. she proceeds to give me the same name as this woman so I could " be his reminder of what he did".
Right?!?!? How unhinged do you have to be that you name your child to punish your spouse. Some people just do not seem to view kids as actual humans
Load More Replies...Children who have toxic parents can often grow up to be people pleasers. They think that someone will love them only if they are serving someone else's needs. "Adults who have experienced this kind of parenting become people pleasers an sometimes compulsive caregivers expecting very little from relationships," Robins adds.
I would come home from school and my mom will just start beating me and yelling at you because God told her what I was doing stuff at school. Turns out she was schizophrenic.
Alright sit down for this one. My dad promised to help me safe for college so while I was putting 90% of my part time income in a joint saved account he put 10% of his, when the time came I wanted to check how much we saved up, I open the account. $94.30 😃. I went to the bank and asked for a sheet of all the transactions little by little my 21k was being GAMBLED away. Into $94.
Sounds like my parents. I worked from age 14 and had to use what I earned for the basics (clothes, toiletries, eyeglasses etc because "you're working now, pay your own way". They thought food and a place to sleep was all they were responsible for. I asked for years if I needed to save for school and every time was told they'd pay for it. Come the last year of high school I was thrilled to get into my №1 pick of universities, only to be told they "didn't have the money" to send me there. They'd just bought a brand new set of living room furniture and a dining table and chairs from a boutique store. When I pointed this out I was told it was their money and they could do what they liked with it. So I lived at home my first year and worked to save, so no new clothes, wore the same glasses for an extra year and so on. Thankfully by the time I was told to get out I had enough to put a deposit on my tuition and residence and the university let me pay off the rest in monthly payments.
My parents told me they had a RESP for me. When I started university I got it- 2400$. I am grateful for the 2400$ but it was less than half a year of school and they talked about it like they were paying for my education. On top of that they charged me rent while I paid my own way through university with student loans and a job, so the rent I paid them increased my student loans. They ABSOLUTELY could have afforded to help me and chose not to. I love them but don't understand how some parents feel responsible to help their kids get a head start and others don't. I have a lot of resentment. I also worked from 13 and paid all my own non food and shelter expenses, in addition to having to pay for any non essential groceries like pop or chips. I don't understand. We were middle class so there was no excuse for it.
Load More Replies...not quite like what happened to me but close. my mom tol me she would go 50/50 on my college fees but only if i entered a program she approved of. i wanted to be an elementary school teacher preferably grades 1-3. she said shed only pay if i went into accounting or business. i figured i could get some credits under my belt and go back for a teaching degree later. well when i graduated she said she wasnt going to help and i was on my own. i never got to go back and ended up as emergency dispatch instead of the business office job she wanted me to have.
Defended my r*pist on multiple occasions & refers to him as her SON.😀😀😀😀
I hope you are no contact and that she develops flesh rotting bacteria
Robins goes through some hints that might point to whether an adult grew up with 'not good enough' parents. She says that a lack of boundaries is one the tell-tale signs. Some parents don't allow their children privacy or don't shield them from adult fears and problems. "[They] will discuss intimate details of their marital relationship with their children, expecting the child to provide empathy and a sympathetic ear," Robins points out.
Force fed me liver and when I threw up m try to make me eat my throw up.
My mother did this to me with bell peppers. Actually pretty much anything whe she found out I ate something cause I wasn't allowed to eat without permission
Oh my word, Kristin. I'm so sorry you had to experience that!
Load More Replies...if y'all want a wholesome story involving liver: me and my family stay at my uncle's house in little rock while we visit family. once, we came home at around 11 pm (we were at my dad's friend's house) and my uncle was making liver and onions for dinner
My mom used to make " Liver Nips". She essentially wrapped up a food I didn't like into a dumpling sort of thing . Was delicious. ( I still don't like liver)
Load More Replies...My grandparents forced my uncle to eat tripe, but I don't think they went that far. There was emotional abuse though I don't think he or my mum ever called it that. They just took it as strict parenting and never talked about it with them. Once they were adults it was pretty much a reversal personality and they got on well most of the time. I think having grandchildren helped, as my grandfather was always better with other people's kids. He was a great caring teacher, just had no time for them at home.
My mom put my dog down without telling me and NO warning.
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬as a mum two kids n always had dogs all my 60 yrs I would never do this ffs that’s pure evil n inhuman !
My mom gave my cat away while I was at my grandparents because she didn't like the cat.
Load More Replies...my mom would adopt animals and then wait till she got mad at us and make us drop them off in the countryside. i still have problems getting attached to animals because of that. i like them and all but i dont let them get to close cause i got in the habit of knowing they were gonna be gone in a few weeks.
My mom told me I had demons and needed Jesus or an exorcism when I was having a panic attack because of her.
Funny how many of these seem to be religion related.
Load More Replies...This is not believing in the Almighty, this is a unhealthy mindset that doesn't understand God. People like this are man made religion. God is not religion.
Except we wouldn't worship God to the point we do now if it wasn't for religion. The native tribes all have God-like figures, but usually there are many gods, and they don't use it to push pervasive agendas on people for the sake of control.
Load More Replies...Robins says that parentification is another sign of having 'not good enough' parents. Having too much responsibility, such as parenting your younger siblings, can result in dysfunctional relationships as an adult. Other dysfunctional parents use triangulation. As a strategy to get back at their spouse, they co-opt the child to side with them against the other parent.
My therapist SA’D me my mom then proceeded to tell me it was my fault and made me apologize to him ( I was 8 so I genuinely thought it was my fault).
This is criminal in every use of the word. I hope they both rot in the hell they richly deserve.
Prison is not enough for these despicable sh!ts
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My father lets just say, likes children a little too much.
No! Your father is a rapist and pedophile. Not " likes children too much" Don't soften felonies.
She still might find it extremely difficult to use the actual words.
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My mom is pro life. even for SA cases. i think that’s enough said.
My sister thinks that women should die rather than have an abortion for any reason.
Those who call themselves "pro-life" are merely anti-abortion. When the Nazis took over Germany, they immediately repealed all the mildly pro-choice laws of the Weimar Republic. Hitler was anti-abortion, but nobody would call him pro-life.
"Just" as an attitude with any SA/pregnancy of OP, this is refreshingly harmless compared to others here.
I'm sorry what now? A woman being told she should have to see a pregnancy to term after being SA'd is "refreshingly harmless"? No, it's horrifying, whether in comparison to something or not. No one ever has any right to tell a woman what to do with her body.
Load More Replies...Yes. Yes, she is. The right to decide what happens in a uterus belongs solely to the person whose body it's in. The woman has already been violated and her autonomy taken away. No one has the right to tell her what to do with her own body.
Load More Replies...Toxic parents often guilt their children for not doing things their way. According to Robins, shame and shaming becomes a parenting strategy for these types of parents. "They will make the child feel guilty for having needs that aren't aligned with their own," she says. And they don't work to repair that relationship, either. Instead of talking things out, they use ' silent treatment' and expect the child to find out what they did wrong for themselves.
My parents thought I was faking being sick as a kid. I was having an organ failure and the only reason im alive is cuz my babcia brought me to the ER.
Took away my therapist when she recommended emancipation.
When i forgot my jacket in 3rd grade she made me kneel in the tub and pick 100 grains of pasta out w chopsticks. after every grain say “i won’t forget my jacket at school again”.
How do people even come up with this kind of punishment? Twisted minds....
Sounds like some type of t*****e my stepmother would come up with.
This is bad? My bestie had to kneel on rice in the corner and I just got my a*s busted. In school they'd make you write this 100 times. If this is bad, then I wish you good luck with your teenagers
So because you were àbùsed, and your bestie was too, this somehow is ok? You have some twisted values, and I hope you don't have kids.
Load More Replies...Robins explains that this guilt and shame contribute to why children of toxic parents choose to cut contact with them once they grow up. They believe that the only way to manage the relationship is to leave. And, Robins says, the guilt and shame won't end after going no-contact. "The adult child will need to learn to self-soothe and stay grounded in their decision making process," she explains.
My mom stole 20k from my grandma who has dementia. I do not talk to her.
That is horrible. I hope you also called the cops and reported her for fraud and elder abuse.
She kicked me out over me getting Starbucks with my friend of 10+ years just bc my friend is black.
Seriously? I call BS. After more than 10 years of friendship she just noticed she's black?
My guess is they usually met up at a coffee shop or etc. This might have been the first time the one friend called on the other and the Mom was home.
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Once, my mom mocked the way i talked while we were eating dinner, annoyed i mocked abt hers too. She grabbed my hair and hit my head in our concrete wall (twice)...she didn't say sorry and acted like nothing happened.
I hope when this person got older and stronger they used used it to their advantage…
Load More Replies...The psychotherapist lists the things people can do to soothe their feelings of guilt and responsibility after they distance themselves from toxic parents:
- Accept that you will feel bad about this;
- Practice self-compassion;
- Gather understanding and empathetic people around you.
"You may experience disenfranchised grief as there is a lot of social disapproval around going no-contact," Robins shares as a reminder. "It's seen by a lot of people as 'selfish' or extreme."
I had a hatchet mark in my bedroom door as a teenager and nobody believed me when I said my mom was chasing me with a hatchet and I closed the door and she hit the door…. A few month later she did it.
So your mother was chasing you and you ran into your room and closed the door, and then a few months later she hit the door?
Did it ever occur to the grammar and spelling Nazis that the people writing these posts might not have had parents particularly invested in their f*****g education?
I agree with you, however, in this specific case I actually don't understand the meaning of the last sentence. Misspelled word, missing word- get over it. But I am curious here if someone can explain what the mom did a few months later ("it").
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She called the cops on me because I "stole food" (I ate something in the fridge).
When they say police protect and serve, they don't mean they serve any crazy person's whims. So much entitlement. If you have kids, your food is their food and if you can't handle that then don't have kids. I could accept it if there was a small budget and food needed to be rationed/spread out between shops, but I doubt someone who is poor but cares about their kids enough to make sure they have food for them every day would call the cops like this.
In the UK we have a charge of "wasting police time". I'd love to know if such a thing ever gets applied in the US, as the number of stupid things they seem to get called for, they could fund the entire force on the fines!
They do in the US especially cases that cost 1000 of dollars and man power
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I told my mom I was pregnant and not to tell anyone. Guess what she diiiiiiiiiiiiid.
I became pregnant before I was married. My mother asked, "How did this happen?" Umm....
I'm petty enough to explain in detail how it happened.
Load More Replies...Still, Robins encourages people to be brave and put themselves first. "Although you will need to take responsibility for your decision, that doesn't mean you are responsible for your parent's or your family's mental health or emotional wellbeing. Maintaining good emotional boundaries is part of a successful separation process," the psychotherapist says.
My dad performed an “exorcism” on me because I had a MILD anxiety attack.
Yet another brainwashed god squad lunatic ! As hasn’t worked out the bible is litterally the biggest work of fiction ever written !!! they are very dangerous people !
My mom used my hair as a mop. We have a great relationship now 💀💀💀.
Poor kid. That's heartbreaking. Hope your hair and the rest of you is safe now!
Made me get gastric sleeve surgery.
ehhhh... i feel like a medical professional would have had to approve the need for one..
Guarantee it. Especially if the person is young, as in this case, and there appears to be no medical reason.
Load More Replies...My mom would have done this if the doctor had let her. I was 5' tall and weighed 106 pounds. She felt that was 20 pounds overweight.
My parents physically and verbally abused me throughout my childhood and then when I finally had a conversation about it with them they said that I was the abuser.
I hope you stay far far away from them and live your best life free of their poison
My dad threatened to drive off the mountain while we were on a road trip because I didn't give him a gummy bear.
When i was 15 my mom left me 100 miles from home with no money of phone..she then called my family and told them I ran away and was on dr*gs. I was abandoned.
May that mother roast in hell, as pretty much every parent on this post.
My dad's dog attacked me and I had to get 22 stitches, and then he proceeded to tell me that I had to pay the bill.
Yes they absolutely do, depending on the dog.
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When I was thirteen and going through puberty I got stretch marks for the first time and told my mom, she told me it was my fault for eating so much. Mind you she's a dietitian 😶.
Starved me for a week straight because of THEIR religion 😝.
Fasting is supposed to be a personal decision, a freely given sacrifice. Forcing someone to do it is both ethically and religiously wrong. All the religions I know that do fasting give children a pass anyway, for health reasons.
As a Christian, this is true. Lent is also a case where someone can give up a specific thing (ex: chocolate, or maybe music) and fasting is also not usually done in my town or any Christians I know
Load More Replies...My mom told me she should’ve aborted me when I was 15 and we are no contact now.
Mom dragged me out of bed when I was asleep, down the hall, & down the stairs (all carpet) to do dishes (that I didnt even leave) at MIDNIGHT. on top of that, it was the night prior to ACT testing.
Hopefully OP still scored well, got into college, and never ever came back.
My biological dad was in foster care so he dated his mom and didn't know it was his mom but she knew it was her son. ts messed him up for life.
She found out I was in therapy and proceeded to listen to me whenever I was on call with her (it was during covid) and beat me when I told my therapist that she got rid of my depression medication.
Pushed her ED onto me and constantly harrassed me when I ate. She pressured me to lose weight/be as skinny as possible from the age 5, I was never over weight or anything.
I’m a recovering anorexic ! N when ,y now 24-21 yr old kids where young id hide the fact I wasn’t eating so it didn’t rub off on them , I’m now 60 n I have learnt to eat , I adore cooking n I’m good at it to , and I’ve learnt also to be who I am , op your mother is a vile inhuman s k a n k !
took me a minute...couldn't figure out what erectile dysfunction had to do with it!
Mistaking the acronym, I started reading this as "Pushed her erectile disfunction on me ... " and was very confused
As a 40 year old man it too me way too long to try and figure out how she pushed her erectile disfunction onto you. smh
When i didn’t wake up at a certain time in the morning, they’d take 30 minutes of my sleep and it got to a point i’d only sleep for 2 hours.
This is bizarre. No wonder they wouldn't wake up, they weren't getting enough sleep. Most parents would do the opposite.
My brother was born on 9/11/2001 and my parents believe he is the reincarnation of the antichrist.
Right?!?! Imagine acting like your child had some control over the day they were born
Load More Replies...They adopted me as a baby and then sent me back to foster care as a teenager. my dad referred to it as a return sale.
Step mom gave me a smoothie with RAT p****n before Halloween so I couldn’t go trick or treating for my last year :).
I said i dont support elon musk. she did not like that and took away my therapist thinking she was influencing me.
I broke my tibia at 11. My folks didn't believe I was hurt so I walked on it for 2 months.
Listened to me cry about not being invited to family events, and how much it hurt to feel excluded. Come to find out she was the one asking people not to invite me.
Threw my mental health medication in my face then took a fist full of it herself and send “now I have to take them because is so hard to deal with you”.
More than just bad, this is a medical risk: Different doses have different effects, even if it's the same medicine prescribed
My mum walked in on me having a bath and told me that when my bf sees how fat ill be on my wedding day "let's see if he still loves you".
Sounds like the "classical" female body shaming the mother has experienced is passed to the next generation...hopefully not.
On my great grandmothers wedding day she was shot in the head by the groom. She survived and still married him once she recovered. They're buried together.
Life might not be great for women now, but at least this is no longer acceptable.
My drunken uncle tried to k**l my entire family over $10 when I was 7, me included.
My grandmother grabbed my crotch and asked if I was wearing a packer. It was not the first time she’s done something like that and it won’t be the last. I was horrified.
Something men wear to look “bigger” in the c****h area
Load More Replies...The most appalling thing isn't even that she asked or how. It's that she was curious at all.
Sent to wilderness therapy 2 TIMES.
Wilderness therapy, or wilderness bootcamps, use abuse and dehumanisation to try and "fix" abused/disabled/mentally ill children.
Load More Replies...My mom took my birth certificate with her to japan so i cant press charges against the man who SA'd me but luckily my (ex) Bf's mom helped me get a new one, and he's in jail now.
To prove your identity for the court records? At least in Germany you have to prove your name to press charges - but there you have an ID card.
Load More Replies...Depends on the country but if the r**e was underage you'd need a birth certificate to prove that.
Load More Replies...My mom used to make bets with my siblings that I would get pregnant before I graduated high school. I was 12.
Unfortunately I live in rural Nevada and I know quite a few women who became grandmothers before 35.
Load More Replies...I don't talk to my mom anymore. she abused my children. immediately cut off. but over the years I put up with a lot. force feeding me my own throw up, refusing medical care, starving me, poisoning.
There are women who should not raise children. At least not without massive surveillance and help by CPS or a similar agency.
Bought my ex an uber from jail after he was released from assaulting me at my job.
This one time I put A LITTLE eyeliner and my stepdad said I looked like a stripper 😻.
Assuming they mean young Ozzy I'd take that as a compliment
Load More Replies...I got SA’d and my mom continues to blame me for it and not him. And I proceeded to get grounded for months from it…. My dad… lord he’s worse than my mom cause he said I “deserved it”.
I'm afraid the more rigid the moral ideas about sexuality are, the less compassion there will be. Partly -no excuse!- because of the more powerful position of abusers (as compared to most victims) and also because of that "shame/dirty/don't talk about that" atmosphere.
My mom found out i was bulimic and told me i needed to stop “ruining my teeth bc she paid a lot of money for my braces” and never brought it up again.
Kicked me out of the house during the middle of the night, and blamed me for getting the police involved.
Well where do i start💀. Father dearest lets say has an attraction to young girls that happen to be of his own DNA. And mother dearest plays victim while genuinely DESTROYING lives.
Stop soft peddling this stuff. Your dad is a rapist. He sexually assaults his own kids. Your mother is an accessory before and after the fact. They are felony child abusers.
Locked me outside for a week, but brought three meals a day and I had a tent soooo…Also locked me out of my room for 4 months with the same five outfits cuz I didn’t get all A’s.
Ah the intersection of should never have had kids and should not be allowed to raise the ones she has
I cut my hair cause im trans and wanted to be a boy and she said i wasnt apart of the family, just a monster living in her house.
My great grandma went into cardiac arrest when she found out my cousin married a black man.
My brother died and nobody told me. I found out by accidentally finding his ashes in my parents closet.
My ancestor led a cult. Like preaching from a throne and healing people with his hands kind of cult.
Forced me to undergo pelvic exam and get a Pap smear at 15 as a punishment. 🙃 I don’t talk to her anymore.
My stepmom is 2 hours older than me.
Are we for women's choice and independence of choice or not? Why is a 19 year old woman able to choose abortion or hysterectomy (rightly so) but apparently incapable of choosing to date someone older without automatic presumption of being the victim of a creepy, predatory male?
Supporting someone's right to choose is not an automatic endorsement of the choice they end up making.
Load More Replies...My dad sent me to a mental hospital because i was being too kind to my sister. i’m sorry? [tears].
When I was 17, she had a psychotic meltdown and blamed me for the death of my 6 month old brother. I was 18 months old at the time of his death and I brutally explained why she was wrong for years.
Did the mother not want or not have access to therapy? Losing a baby must be horrible but you have to mourn without blaming another child. (My grandma kinda was like OP's mother, unfortunately. My mom was 6 months when her brother was run other by a train. Hunted her her whole life. Wish my grandparents got therapeutical help at some point because their "we survived the war so we will lead a happy life without problems, no matter what" did not work. My other uncle who killed himself might still be alive if he had been allowed not to be perfect and happy all the time.)
That is just a huge pile of generational trauma. I am so sorry
Load More Replies...My dad flat out told me “been telling all your friends you have daddy issues well you’re about to have them” sir they have BEEN there thanks.
Sent me to the psych ward cause they were told celiac was a mental illness.
Having worked in one I cannot imagine them admitting OP> More likely sent parents to real doctor to explain food allergies
Load More Replies... Grandfather died of a heart attack while in mexico and some lady claiming to be his "wife" wouldnt release the body to my
nana ... his wife of 60+ years.
Bonnie and Clyde asked my great grandpa and my Nana (she was maybe 6-7) asked if they can borrow their car. They said yes, that car is now in a museum.
I wonder how true it is. Similar sort of story to a boat that is in a museum because it was supposedly used in Dunkirk, but actually never was.
There's an unsolved murder in my family but we all know who did it.
This kind of thing is horrifyingly common. Whole family "knows" and just says nothing.
Load More Replies...If they killed a rapist or child a****r, I would understand and let it remain unsolved for good.
Grandad cheated on my grandma with her sister on the wedding night and carried on for 20+ years, mom doesn't know how many of her 'cousins' are her half sibling.
Time to gift ancestry.com kits to everyone. Oh and don't forget to opt in to GEDmatch please.
My grandpa nearly hit terry fox on the highway (wasn’t paying attention to the news) he didn’t know why the car was going so slow, went to pass and nearly made my family one of the most hated in Canada lol.
For those in other parts of the world who may not know who Terry Fox is. He was a teenager who had his leg amputated due to an aggressive cancer. He had gotten a prosthetic, metal leg. To raise awareness and donations for cancer research he decided to run/jog across Canada, coast to coast, calling it "Marathon Of Hope" that started in St. John's, Newfoundland. He ran 5,373 kilometers (3,339 miles), 143 days, from April 12, 1980 . He had to stop in Thunder Bay, Ontario, September 1, 1980, when the cancer returned in his lungs. He raised $24 million from the marathon, alone. He died June 1, 1981. So, yeah, if anyone hit him that would have been a nation of outraged Canadians. Since then, we have Terry Fox day, where schools have students run laps around the field and other memorial marathons for raising donations for cancer research.
Thank you. He sounds like an amazing person, and it's good to hear that his goodness wasn't forgotten or praised just in words, but is actually remembered and continued.
Load More Replies...In Canada, at least, they do school runs and full town runs through everywhere, with traffic closed down for the event
Um my dad cheated on my mom with my best friends mom and then my mom cheated on my dad with my sisters situationship.
Long story short my mom signed me up for a self defense class bc someone tried to 💀 her when she was 13- she ended up pulling me out when she found out he was the one teaching the class.
I had family fighting both sides in ww2.
My poor great uncle on mums side was conscripted first to fight for the Nazis at 16, his squadron was captured by the Partisans fighting against N.azi Occupation and he was lucky he was not shot. One of the rebels wanted him shot with the others but the group leader gave him a choice to fight with them or die, he fought with them for the rest of the war and survived.
Some soldiers serving Italy fought on both sides without any help from relatives. Vichy France, too.
My grandpa is in prison for hiring a hitman on his ex wife.
OK I'm gonna need a little more. Did the hitman succeed? Did they report him?
If he'd succeeded, they likely wouldn't have known about it at all.. Grandma would have died from a freak accident, or unknown murder.
Load More Replies...My great grandad was sent to the camps in the 40s and WALKED all the way back to his village in France to find his wife.
The original title was " unhinged things in family" so I think this is here for that.
Load More Replies...I had to stop reading fairly early on because of my insane desire to correct grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure was getting the better of me.
When my mum died, I was strapped for cash and an uncle offered to pay for the funeral and I would pay him back when my mums will came through (I was an only child, she left me her house) When the time came to pay the money back I found my uncle had put a 20% charge on the money lent. Solicitor said he'd never heard of anything so tacky. I just paid it and cut contact.
when i was a kid i fell into a pool. didn't know how to swim, my mom was there. she just... let me there drowning. luckily another relative arrived right on time. also her ex husband SA me in front of her and she laughed and made fun of it. more than once. haven't spoken to her for 8 years now.
When I was 9 my dad told me he was having an affair with my best friends mum and if I told my mum he would cut my tongue out and k**l me. It was an open secret in my family that I was the one out of his 3 children that he didnt want/like so my 9 yo self really thought he was going to do it! I still told her tho
When I first got with my now ex-husband, my mother and he couldn't stab each other. They were both narcissists and basically two of a kind. I couldn't do a thing right for either of them. A few years later they seemed to get along much better, however by then he was abusing me serially, physically and psychologically. I tried to tell my mother what he was doing and she said I was "talking rubbish" and how people would talk if I divorced him. I eventually found the courage to leave him. I told my mother and she immediately sided with him, and even told me not to go to her house one day because he was going round for tea. It turned out they had been sleeping together.
My dad once bopped me hard on top of my head with his fist bc I was scuffling my shoes as I walked causing life long neck issues.
So sorry for you. Hope you can handle the issues as painlessly as possible.
Load More Replies...One of my ex-g/fs has aunts her are like 15 years younger than her. One of her grandfathers remarried and had a bunch girls...who are her aunts. Though they just call each other cousins because it was weird even for them. lmao
Ok - back to the cute animal stories for me. Sorry to all of these people who had such s***ty parents.
My mother died suddenly (brain haemorrhage) I was 16, my brother 18 and we were both still at school. 3 weeks later he told us he'd met this wonderful woman, and was moving out to live with her. He dropped off £5 each week for our food and moaned that the house was getting dirty. My brother and I went very low contact once we were financially stable.
I had to stop reading fairly early on because of my insane desire to correct grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure was getting the better of me.
When my mum died, I was strapped for cash and an uncle offered to pay for the funeral and I would pay him back when my mums will came through (I was an only child, she left me her house) When the time came to pay the money back I found my uncle had put a 20% charge on the money lent. Solicitor said he'd never heard of anything so tacky. I just paid it and cut contact.
when i was a kid i fell into a pool. didn't know how to swim, my mom was there. she just... let me there drowning. luckily another relative arrived right on time. also her ex husband SA me in front of her and she laughed and made fun of it. more than once. haven't spoken to her for 8 years now.
When I was 9 my dad told me he was having an affair with my best friends mum and if I told my mum he would cut my tongue out and k**l me. It was an open secret in my family that I was the one out of his 3 children that he didnt want/like so my 9 yo self really thought he was going to do it! I still told her tho
When I first got with my now ex-husband, my mother and he couldn't stab each other. They were both narcissists and basically two of a kind. I couldn't do a thing right for either of them. A few years later they seemed to get along much better, however by then he was abusing me serially, physically and psychologically. I tried to tell my mother what he was doing and she said I was "talking rubbish" and how people would talk if I divorced him. I eventually found the courage to leave him. I told my mother and she immediately sided with him, and even told me not to go to her house one day because he was going round for tea. It turned out they had been sleeping together.
My dad once bopped me hard on top of my head with his fist bc I was scuffling my shoes as I walked causing life long neck issues.
So sorry for you. Hope you can handle the issues as painlessly as possible.
Load More Replies...One of my ex-g/fs has aunts her are like 15 years younger than her. One of her grandfathers remarried and had a bunch girls...who are her aunts. Though they just call each other cousins because it was weird even for them. lmao
Ok - back to the cute animal stories for me. Sorry to all of these people who had such s***ty parents.
My mother died suddenly (brain haemorrhage) I was 16, my brother 18 and we were both still at school. 3 weeks later he told us he'd met this wonderful woman, and was moving out to live with her. He dropped off £5 each week for our food and moaned that the house was getting dirty. My brother and I went very low contact once we were financially stable.
