Sera wrote:
mood lol. it's so wild to be around my bf's parents bc they're so??? nice and normal?? they gave me 50e as a part of my christmas present last year and it felt like robbery. my mom sold everything i had while i was abroad and kept the money. and when i returned after three years, one year of no contact, she just nagged about how i should have supported her and my sister, didn't ask a single question about me but told me everything about her current bf. none of them last over a couple of months and one of them was actually a married younger man who left her 4-year-old daughter and long-term partner/wive for some dumb fling with my mom. whenever i talk about her, my bf points out all the ways she neglected me. majority of which i never noticed bc i thought it was so normal. i didn't question hiding knives from my mom's bf as a kid or him locking me out of the house in my pajamas on a winter night for the longest time bc shit like that just happened all the time. not getting any food on weekends at my dad's wasn't weird, just annoying
my family isn't quite as bad as yours, but i totally get you. and i applaud you for building a good life for yourself despite the environment you had to grow up in. the further you get from them, the better it gets.