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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never understand these people who try to talk to their parents about their failures. You really think your mom and dad are going to change after 60+ years of life and announce “of course! we failed! thank you for showing us the light.”

Your parents failed. So have you. You were a spoiled brat at times and a sweet, misunderstood angel at others. The best thing you can do is the hard work of being a parent yourself. Forgive your wretched parents and hope that your child will do the same for you.[/quote]

They will be “forgiven” when they actually own up to specifically what they did wrong and ask forgiveness, not some vague, handwaving BS like “whatever I may have done” or “I’m sorry you felt that way.”[/quote]

Np. I didn’t even want my mother to accept what happened. I just wanted her to stop abusing me as an adult. People who are terrible parents to children are also frequently terrible parents to their adult children. My rift with my mother was more about her current behavior than her past behavior. I was willing to let the past go, but I wasn’t willing to put up with current abuse.[/quote]

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