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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't like the type of people my parents are. I realized I could not live with them as soon as I was old enough to make it on my own. I have a half-way decent relationship with my mother. I barely talk to my father; he's the one with serious issues.[/quote]

Wow, I could have written this. When I left for college, I never looked back. I realized by late childhood that I didn't particularly like either of my parents.

My dad has untreated mental illness (OCD, depression), and is unstable and unreliable. As a child, it was incredibly frustrating to be gaslighted by him. He would constantly go back on his word, and then claim that the rest of us were crazy and he had never said any such thing when we tried to call him out on it. He is also emotionally abusive.

My mother is a completely overbearing religious fanatic and judgmental of anyone who isn't "saved," but I've learned to mostly ignore it and we get along OK.

I continue to work on my resentment issues in therapy, and it's helped a lot.[/quote]

How does your therapist help you with your resentment?

I have so much resentment toward my parents and don't know how to deal with it. We moved closer to be near them because they are good grandparents, but I myself don't like them very much as people.[/quote]

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