Blog About Toxic Parents

(these are my experiences, but feel free to add onto your own because these are definitely not all of them!!)

it sucks because you dread breaks because maybe even if your abusers aren’t abusing you still, your house reminds you of when they did and you’re constantly triggered

and if they are still abusive you get thrown back into the pattern of fight or flight that you’ve worked SO HARD to stop at college

you’re also constantly Not Relating to your friends/peers who are counting down the days until break and you just sit there in silent anxiety dreading hearing that number count down

people constantly hearing you talk about your parents and going “yeah my parents are annoying too I hate them!” and meanwhile you think “if only you knew”

or you never talk about your parents and people ask and you don’t know how to answer them without making things seem Bad

when all of your friends call their parents for emotional support after a stressful day, you go to bed early and blast sad music, wishing your parents would be the same way

your friends ask you “what did they do this time?” when they see you upset (if you’ve told them about your parents)

SUMMER BREAK IS HELL

WINTER BREAK IS HELL

trying to find a job that keeps you away from home as much as possible

trying to decide whether to be there over the summer for your sibling who is still in your parents’ house or getting a job as far away as possible from them

• “ur lying ur not going to a study group” *threatens to stop tuition*