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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mom went through a phase of putting me in a headlock, prying open my jaw and pouring orange juice down my throat while I was crying each morning before school. Apparently our Vitamin C vitamins weren't enough and orange juice was the only solution in her mind. I don't know if it was a few weeks or few months, but she did this to both my brother and me, ensuring that neither of us ever voluntarily drank orange juice again. It's only in the last two years I've started liking mandarins and clementines.

For literally over two decades I asked her periodically (like every few years) why she did this. She always denied she did, so gaslighting was fun! Finally I asked my brother if I was making it up and he assured me it did happen. Then one day a few years before she died, we were sitting outside a museum, I asked again expecting no answer and she said, "I don't know. I guess I thought I was doing the right thing." This was all I needed. I never brought it up again with her. She was doing the best she could, was misguided, stubborn, and lost her way. I can understand all those things. So yeah, I moved past that once she acknowledged she did it. [/quote]

Maybe your parent didnt want to be punished forever or even sued by their adult child for something that obviously they were just trying to give you vitamins and you survived. [/quote]

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