My boyfriend has such a healthy relationship with his family. It’s amazing hearing his stories about growing up & how his parents treated him. Meanwhile my childhood was hell & I’m still trying to work through it in therapy. I’m so glad he had that experience, but it’s really hard not to be jealous. It also makes me resent my parents even more because now I’m hearing what I could have had

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Yeah. But i try to remember that its actually pretty rare for people to have “good” childhoods. The people that have are just more vocal, but most people had rough childhoods i think.

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I had a good childhood, the memories of which were blown to bits along with my father’s brains.

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I get angry at coming of age movies lol. Between my family and how alone i was in school (homeschool and then high school just sucked) its really hard to relate and not just feel like i missed out on growing up.

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My parents had their hands full trust. We kinda kept inside a lot more than other kids and I hear all these stories of things happening basically right out side my front door and I’m like either nobody fucked with me for my parents really did a number socially

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i relate to this. i have a good relationship with my parents but i grew up mormon and didn’t get a normal childhood experience because my family was hyper religious. like hearing my friends talk about summer camps and birthday parties and sleepovers and my whole life revolved around how one day i would have kids?? why is that what my life goals are at 9 years old??

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YES! I was literally never allowed to hang out with my friends, have sleepovers, etc. All I did was go to school, do homework, read. We never had family vacations (which I don’t blame them for, they were always working) and I always got super jealous of people after summer talking about what place their family went to. And they wonder why I’m socially stunted lol

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What is normal? 💀

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