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“you owe me because I feed you,”

is tantamount to them saying,

Because all of that is essential to a child’s physical, emotional, psychological, social, and developmental well-being. It’s normal for a parent to provide these things. It’s child neglect to fail to provide these things (not accounting for poverty or other circumstances beyond their control, such as famine or war).

As for the post….

Cue a lifetime of unhealthy weight issues. I’ve done the pendulum swing of eating problems repeatedly throughout my life. I’ve starved myself skinny and hated myself. I’ve given in to eating habits of the depressed and gained weight, and I still hate myself. Not a single part of my body that I like really.

Oh, I also still don’t like clothes shopping or talking to my mother about clothes shopping either. Especially when she sees that I own anything new and the first question is, “How much did that cost you?”

You Do Not Owe Your Parents Anything

They owe you.

They brought you into this world. They owe you the best life they can give you because of that. You didn’t ask to be born.

They brought you into this world. You Did Not Ask To Exist.