Do you respect your parents?

[Anthropos]

I treat them well mannered, but silently despise then.

 

[scentoflavender]

my mom abused me a lot as a child and is the source of nearly all of my trauma. my dad has always been better but understands mental health and whatnot extremely poorly

 

[Asya]

Generally, I believe every person in the world is something of a neutral being. There is no good or bad in this world. I believe in a rehabilitative justice system, that even the worst scum deserve pleasant living. That said - An eternity tortured in hell would not be sufficient enough punishment for my family.

 

[raineen]

i used to hate them both a lot, but i stopped feeling that way as much towards one of them after they had a full breakdown and started apologizing for what they did (which i can barely even remember what it is at this point, it's blocked out entirely), and said parent also regularly has crying fits over it when remembering it.

but it still doesn't undo what happened. it doesn't undo what happened to me and what i had to go through. i hope that parent finds forgiveness in themselves, as they will not find it in me.

 

[Macedonian1987]

I dont respect them because they are the most cold and uncomforting people out there. When i tell them that im depressed and suicidal they make me feel even worse instead providing any sort of comforting. Their mariage is loveless and its been like that even before i was born.

 

[Greyhawk]

As human beings, I respect them very much. Both of them are very resilient people who are capable of thinking for themselves and aren't sheep who have all their opinions fed by the media. Of course they had much higher expectations of me and I guess they are disappointed how I turned out. My dad was sometimes quite cold when I was a child and my mom was quite disappointed in me during my high school years. I just don't understand why the fuck they had to procreate with so bad genetics (Very high probability for physical defects and severe mental health problems).

Regardless of that, I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. I just don't think they should have been parents. They are a big reason why I don't want children.

 

[soonatpeace777888]

No, my parents are losers especially my "mom" who caused me a tremendous amount of mental pain.

 

[neverexistedd]

I could respect my father but I don't, he's immature and impulsive (he threw his hands on me & brother for really trivial reasons and that made me lose all respect for him), he's petty as well, he was mostly absent from my childhood anyways and didn't put any work into raising me
as for my mother, maybe but I don't know, she's also petty and she'll never admit her fault in anything, she didn't raise me well and was too controling, but I don't hold any grudge against both of them, it is what it is and I'm okay with them, but I wouldn't say I "respect" them as individuals