Sucky Parent(s)

I don't mean the kinds who won't let you go to a concert or something like that. Who here has (a) parent(s) that just downright suck(s)? Whether it be that they play favourites with your siblings, pay no attention to you whatsoever or just make you feel like plain ol' crap on a daily basis.

How do you cope with it? Does it affect your lives at school/work? How are your relationships with both parents?

Discuss.

My relationship with my mother is REALLY complicated. She's violent, she puts me down and compares me all the time to people in our family because I'm not like them. She also screwed up my life since I was 11 years old, when she almost choked me to death. She gets emotionally abusive all the time, and is a really hard person to live with and anyone in my family can confirm that.

My dad... It's a weird relationship as well. He's worse when drunk, and gets violent then buy apart from that things are okay.

I've never told anyone what my parents were really like, and what I said above is the reason I NEVER bring my friends over. During the day, I just put my life at home on the side at school.

mum, eh... we argue, and she tells me i'm screwed up mentally, then denies it, saying it's just how i am.

she says she wishes i'd open up more, and i'm scared of telling her a LOT.

I live with my step mum and dad.
I have minimal contact with my mum - she openly favours my younger brother.
My dad is an arse hole most of the time, but I still love him -shrugs-
My step mum is really suportive, she knows most things about me, but I still like to keep things to myself.

my mother... is totally awesome


my father is totally the opposite.

homophobic, violet, abusive.

Used to chase me around the house trying to either
a) hit me with his belt
b) tear my piercing out
or c) try to kill me.


i just... cant... not love him.


iunno it's complicated.

I hate him, but still. he's my father

Both of my parents fail, both drunks.
But dad doasnt really get things, he dosent really bother anymore since i got kicked out of South Freo, well really he stopped caring in garde 7. At my graduation.
Mum, well shes my mum. What can i say.
What kind of parent tells thier child that they preffer the other child, that your a screw up and is just there to make "the family" look bad, and that they shouldnt of had you since they already miscarridged before you.
I wont post anything else. Im just, i just dont wont to.
But i find that they have an amazing talent of turing a switch when i have people over that makes them seem all okay.

Both of my parents are fucking awesome.

I have a really weird relationship with my mother. It's like there're two sides of her. Either I love her one hell of a lot or I fucking hate her guts, there's no happy medium. She knows just the right things to say -- to make you feel on top of the world or tear you apart -- and I guess that's a factor. She can be so fucking vicious sometimes.

I think... I've never told anyone this, but I think maybe she played a little bit of a role in my hating myself. She told (TELLS) me that I'm useless, I'm not worth it, she doesn't know why she puts up with me, I get stupider the older I get, etc. I actually never knew that it wasn't the norm for parents to swear at their kids, and when I told my friends some of the things she calls me when she gets into one of her rages, they were horrified, so I don't really think I'd like to repeat them here.

I'm terrified of her when she gets really mad. As in, shakingcryingcoldallover terrified. She has this crazy fucking temper, and it doesn't take a lot to set it off. Sometimes it's like walking on eggshells around her.

I don't talk to my dad much, he's at work a lot. My parents don't get along, so he stays there as long as he can. He doesn't seem to know me at all, and it's quite sad every time he tries to strike up a conversation. He says all the wrong things, and I just don't want to talk, and it all gets so awkward I want to run out of the room. He... I mean, I love him, he can be really sweet, but sometimes I'd rather he just left me alone.