Of course a man is directing this.

can we also talk about how the new Ali Baba movie is going to be about a British guy:

From his description it sounds like a movie about a man disguised as a movie about women: the important thing about these women is what they taught HIM.

This has been one of the most therapeutic pieces I have read in a long time. My sister and I are estranged from our mother and when people hear of this they usually paint us as spoiled children. "But that's your MOTHER!" they say. No matter that she was and is an abusive psycho who both my sister and I tried our…

I actually signed up for a Kinja account because of this comment. It is exactly right - what you said, "heart-wrenching, not natural and very hard," is completely true.

This lady sounds like a true narcissist. As a therapist and adult child of an emotionally/verbally abusive father who I have had to at times cut off to save my own sanity/grow as a person. I have recommended at times that clients cut off from their parents with whom they have toxic relationships. Sometimes this is…

I believe the term is "emotional incest" and it's just as gross and terrible as it sounds.

My mother was physically and verbally abusive to me most of my life. I cut communication with her some years ago, after she tried to manipulate my husband and me into taking care of her (and her 27 cats), and I also suffer from pressure from my sisters to reconcile. I have forgiven her. But that doesn't mean I need to…

I stopped taking to my dad when I was 18. For a very good reason. I'm pretty sure he knew/knows why, as he tried calling me once or twice and never tried again. Because of a few clueless people trying to tell me "blood is blood" or whatever, I just now tell people he's dead.

"...allow teens to be disrespectful to those in authority..."

I'll do it just for you.

"A common story among parents who have estranged adult children is how much they had focused on their children, how much they did to make sure their children had all the best advantages, made them the center of the family universe — and often how they treated them more like an equal or an adult than a child.
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Good for you! You made the choice to protect your wife and child. My father never did this because he's a coward and he decided to just continue the abusive behaviour that he endured from his parents. At a certain point, everyone is an adult who makes their life choices and who has to deal with the consequences of…

she became a fugitive

As the child of a narcissist (my father- thankfully my mother raised me) I can guarantee that grown children do not cut off ties with their parents because the parent did too good a job at building the child's self-esteem or because the parent won't support the view that the child has of themselves. Not talking to a…

"I believe that a culture of "self-esteem" — give everybody an award, change dress sizes so larger people feel smaller, allow teens to be disrespectful to those in authority..."

Right? Have you met anyone who just cut out their parents for no reason? I haven't, I mean, I'm sure it happens, because people are weird, but both kids? Please. I have watched a lot of people struggle to decide if they should cut people out and hang around abusive or manipulative situations for way too long though.

"They accuse me of being a terrible person, but won't elaborate about exactly what I've done. Well, sometimes they do, but it doesn't make sense, at least to me."

She & her husband better stay away from Buzzfeed today.