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Does anyone else have parents where they make you doubt if they’ve even done anything wrong. Like I can see the negative effects on me and I can communicate what she does to a therapist now but sometimes I just feel like I’m making it up as an excuse
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Anonymous 15w

Years of gaslighting will do that to you. Your parents gaslighting you and you gaslighting yourself. I have the same issue

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Anonymous 15w

To be a dick.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 15w

Yea😭 She is big on emotional gaslighting. She doesn’t usually gaslight me about events tbh she like gaslights me about my own emotions. And then she uses that as a way to control me. While also sometimes gaslighting me about events tbh. But like nothing HUGE yk? But I think she just sees me as a role in her life rather than my own person. When I step outside of what she wants me to do she calls me an asshole. And when I explain what she does she denies it and just says that relationships are a

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15w

Two way street. So basically any time I challenge how she wants things to go or challenge how things that she did in the past harmed me I am called an asshole.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15w

That’s so frustrating, my mom does the same when I bring up things that harmed me in the past. except she doesn’t call me and asshole she says things like “idk how you come up with this stuff” and “you’re twisting me words” (when I quote actually things I KNOW I’ve heard her say. Like for example when my brother came out as trans and changed his name she said it was “disgusting”. Now she claims she never said that, but I was so taken aback when she had said it that I know for a fact she did).

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 15w

*my words. My mom is not a pirate

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 15w

Oof yea that does sound similar😭 It is incredibly frustrating😁👍

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