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[quote=Anonymous]Parents are just flawed humans like everyone else. Your son will also be a flawed parent should he have children.

My parents were people who did a lot of things wrong but none of it was intentional. They had their own issues from their own childhoods and lives and thought they were raising us the best way based on what they thought they should or shouldn't do from their own experiences.

One time my dad called me and was sobbing and saying sorry over and over. I was in a store and had never heard my dad cry and was extremely uncomfortable and just said that s okay. I still don't even know exactly what he was apologizing for but that call was very healing for me as it was clear he was upset that about something related to me and that was all the recognition I needed.

I did have a friend whose therapist told her to cut all ties with her family so she could grow and be her own person as I guess how she had described them made them sound overbearing. However her mental health was very poor and as imperfect as they might have been, they loved her and had been her support system and without them she got much much worse. Three years later she finally got back in contact with them and they all feel the therapist pressured her at a vulnerable time into doing something that was far from her best interest. [/quote]

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