I don’t understand when people talk about having good relationships with their parents. I don’t see how it’s possible to look at my parents and think “these people are good people that I can trust”. Like I look at my friends who keep in touch with their parents and laugh about things their parents have said and I just don’t get it.

Like how do you have that? I just thought everyone despised their parents after a while, for whatever reason. But like these people can’t think of reasons that they don’t get along with their parents.

My mother one time grounded me for saying nothing was wrong when nothing was wrong. My father screamed at my sister once because she didn’t understand her math homework. They’ve both openly told me how I have single-handedly caused all of my family’s financial problems, starting from when I was around eleven up until the present. Once my mother slapped me across the face so hard that I could not see out of one of my eyes for nearly ten minutes.

Reading all this now really sounds s*****, and it sounds like a f****** abuse story, which now makes me worry because I’m out of there for the most part, only coming back to my parents home during breaks in the college school year. But both my siblings are still there and will be stuck there until they get into college themselves.

Now all I can think is that this is a messed up situation.