That is incredibly messed up, and I’m so sorry that you experienced that. But as these posts show, you’re not alone. I’d hug you if I could.

Feel like I should post this one, been a few stories here before where I considered it and I think it’s time. This is the story about my wife’s mother, posted on my wife’s behalf (with permission).

The constant guilt tripping and gas lighting, the constant low level subtle abuse that makes you wonder if you imagined it but no, you really didn’t, the occasional physical abuse that is excused by other adults, the constant disappointment directed at you, the hypocrisy and the bullying...

My mom died in 2006, and my dad in 2001. I still feel really weird that my dad’s death STILL makes me cry awful, horrible shaky tears and my mom’s death just leaves me...numb.

My mother has untreated Borderline Personality Disorder. Thus, I am alternately praised as someone she admires “so much” and whom she is “so proud of” and told I am an ungrateful piece of shit who should kill myself. She has told me to kill myself many times. She has said someone as miserable as I am should just die…

Thank you for this. This is a very triggering time for me and what with all the appreciate-your-wonderful-mother stuff floating around it’s nice to be acknowledged.

Yes, I’m in this club.

I never had realized how dysfunctional my mom was until I was pregnant with my daughter. I managed to live with for 10 years. But now I’ve noticed I’m becoming more and more bitter and resentful. Being manipulated, her need to make revise history. She convinced me to accept my first husbands proposal because I “was a…

My mom invited the entire family over for Easter and pulled an overdose stunt (she called for an ambulance before eating 30 blood pressure pills) while my young children were present. I slapped her - I couldn’t take it. She’d done it many times before, ever since I was a child myself, and it just hurt so much that she…

My mom and I have a rocky relationship due to her alcoholism. She’s a loving person, and has always expressed her love for me, but when she started drinking she could turn quick on a dime. She would verbally abuse me when I was a kid, when she was drunk.

don’t know if I feel sort of pleasantly surprised because I am not -by far- the only one, or feel sad because I am not -by far- the only one.

My mother and I haven’t spoken since last July. She disowned my family.

Forever in the greys, you won’t see this. But thank you for this post. It has helped me so much today.

Thanks to everyone for bravely sharing their stories and pain while spreading the love. I just had a good cry and don’t feel so alone.

This is me, all the way. My mom had(s) some serious emotional issues that she needs to work through that caused me a lot hardship as a child.

Thank you for this. Breaking up was a decision that I didn’t take lightly but it was the best decision for me. This time of year is tough because it brings on so many questions from people. I don’t want to be seen as cold. I don’t want to be seen as a victim. I just want people to know that I know what’s best for me.

I remember the times my mom literally washed my mouth out with a bar of soap because I said “damn” as an eight year old after hearing it on TV. Then there were all the times she beat me with a belt. One time, the metal tip of the belt cut my face and she told me to lie and say I “fell on a rock”— Which I did when my…

Hey Natasha! You’re not going to see this comment, but this was great, thank you.

Thanks so much for this. People lives in sugar houses and just can’t refuse to believe this stuff happens. It does and it did to me. Best day of my life was when I decided NO MORE and kept that ban for the rest of our lives. After you give someone—oh 10 million chances or so—you just gotta get smart. xxoocf

17 years ago, my mother and i got into an argument on mother’s day{nothing i ever did was ever enough}. we lived about 60 miles apart so i didn’t go see her that day because she had been screamng at me over the phone, so why go over for more of that? almost a week later, i went on over with her card and gifts and…