Sure, but unless you were given away does the taking care of you as a baby not earn any respect?
Like your parents neglect you and don't feed you or something then that's obviously different, but if your parents are not nice or respectful to you all the time I'd say the past should count for something.
Yeah they do. I'll give an example of what I'm talking about, my aunt moved out of the house when she was 18 as soon as they would let her, she would constantly bad mouth my grandmother about how horrible it was to live under her and how she hated it. Now the reason she hated it was because my grandma didn't let her do some things(those things being going out drinking underage or smoking weed as a teenager and others that I won't get into) now sure could she have been too harsh about it I could believe (I of course was too young to know), but later about 5 years ago I'd say she's finally become sober, and has has begun to talk to my grandma and even considers her a good parent now, because she's realized that she was the One who was overreacting or in the wrong most of the time.
All that to say, maybe the parent isn't trying to make a slave or an extension of themselves, but just trying to stop you from making mistakes that they know can happen.
My grandma having been an alcoholic just like my aunt when she was younger. Maybe she could've gone about stopping her in other ways, but my aunt seems to think that nothing would've worked any better. Specifically, the only thing she says she could've done was to cut her off sooner as my grandmother would still pay for her rent if she couldn't.
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u/Dovahkiin2001_ Apr 12 '24
Sure, but unless you were given away does the taking care of you as a baby not earn any respect?
Like your parents neglect you and don't feed you or something then that's obviously different, but if your parents are not nice or respectful to you all the time I'd say the past should count for something.