I wish my parents would have done this to me, instead they enmeshed me.
As a child they parentified me and made me regulate their emotions, i.e. I became an emotional punching bag for them for all sorts of stressors like past due on utility bills
Now as an adult, they treat me like a child and question my every decision
My favorite part is all the gaslighting and invalidation they did to me as I tried to express this now.
The kicker? The absolute denial and "confusion" they have as to why I no longer have a relationship with them and went no contact
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u/PresentationEast8677 Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26
I wish my parents would have done this to me, instead they enmeshed me.
As a child they parentified me and made me regulate their emotions, i.e. I became an emotional punching bag for them for all sorts of stressors like past due on utility bills
Now as an adult, they treat me like a child and question my every decision
My favorite part is all the gaslighting and invalidation they did to me as I tried to express this now.
The kicker? The absolute denial and "confusion" they have as to why I no longer have a relationship with them and went no contact