Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ugh. "we love you because we have to love you, but we don't have to like you, and we don't." If I had a dollar for every time my parents told me that when I was growing up . . . Yes, op, it's very possible for parents to dislike their children.
it sounds like you dislike your daughter's actions, not her, though. stop letting her take advantage of you. that was one of the problems in my relationship with my parents before I ended contact. They took advantage of me, and disliked me all the more because I let them.
Your parents said this to your face? Wow.
I'm sorry.
Anonymous wrote:Ugh. "we love you because we have to love you, but we don't have to like you, and we don't." If I had a dollar for every time my parents told me that when I was growing up . . . Yes, op, it's very possible for parents to dislike their children.
it sounds like you dislike your daughter's actions, not her, though. stop letting her take advantage of you. that was one of the problems in my relationship with my parents before I ended contact. They took advantage of me, and disliked me all the more because I let them.
Anonymous wrote:Neither of my parents like me and never really have since I was about middle school age. They do like my younger sibling.