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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Patrick Teahan on YouTube (a childhood trauma therapist) put it this way (paraphrasing): Think about how awful it has to be to sit alone in your house as a parent whose child is no longer speaking to you, and you're alone on a major holiday, sitting there thinking, "but I'm right." What a hollow victory that must be.

He's right. We live in the age of narcissistic parenting that's all the parent, all about the parent's pride and ego. A lot of them are beginning to sit alone at home, thinking they're right, but that thinking is what cost them their child.[/quote]

I know that's not exactly how my mom would have approached it. She's not just "right" she was trying to be helpful with her unasked for advice, she meant well with her meddling, she only wanted what was best but I was ungrateful and disrespectful and she didn't deserve to be treated that way. Patrick must not actually know the people sitting home alone, he must only know half the story.[/quote]
His message works with your examples, too.

A lot of them are alone, sitting there thinking “But I was only trying to be helpful/only meant well/only wanted what’s best”…[/quote]

^ and another to add you will never get the apology you want from someone who believes this came from a place of love the apology looks like "sorry you feel that way, I was only trying to help." What then? You will never convince that person they were wrong in the first place.[/quote]
You just don’t get it, and that’s ok. [/quote]

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