How will she find that though if her parents cut her off?

Family therapy is a fools errand when there’s narcissistic parents involved.

CPS won’t do shit unless there is severe physical neglect/abuse/sexual abuse, and even then it’s a crapshoot. They don’t care about emotional abuse.

I grew up with parents like Claudia’s. My mother died in 2016 and I still have to deal with everyone telling me what a great and powerful woman and mother she was. Anything I say is dismissed as me being spoiled or rebellious. Even though I’m 31, I still don’t have the right to my own narrative apparently.

If you went no contact with your mother I would absolutely support that

I mean I think this wins. Very metal.

I’m always trying to entertain my therapist or just make the session pleasant for them because I don’t want to burn them out. I’ve cried in therapy sure but I’ve never really given myself permission to just lose my shit. And I’ve been in some kind of therapy since I was 12.

The woman on the left is a queen 

It looks like she got her wisdom teeth removed or she’s bulimic 

Her jaw looks so lumpy and swollen?

I still haven’t watched that!

Two DUIs and she’s only been allowed to drink legally for a year?!

As a white Latina I appreciate this

I mean your frontal lobe doesn’t stop forming until you’re 25. This girl is a racist asshole. But legally an adult and “grown fucking adult” are two different things. I don’t know any people under 25 that aren’t at least somewhat emotionally adolescent. 

My mother was a narcissist as well! My parents were both highly educated yet here we are. They were terminally codependent on each other. She treated him like a cherished baby and did everything for him without question, no matter how mean he was. I felt resented just for existing.

My father is bipolar and was absolutely terrifyingly volatile, but my mother chose him every step of the way. When he would have a tantrum over the most minute things, it was either my or my sister’s fault for “upsetting him” and had to apologize (usually it was me.) When he was euthymic again he claimed to either not…

I love her. She makes me not hate my curly unruly hair,

Eventually we’re gonna have to reconcile population growth and ecological decay. The population needs steady growth yo maintain the economy, yes. I also know that it’s hard to have an economy if the earth is a smoldering pile of dust and we have mass displacement because parts of the world (the Global South) are…

I feel like maybe you missed the point? Pathetic as in “woefully inadequate” not “inherently stupid.”

“I know people are dying but my poor babies are bored! What do you expect me to do? Care about other people’s lives and actively parent my kids in quarantine?” Drives me fucking crazy.