As requested, a thread for general snarking that may not need its own post.

  • 1hotpoetaytoe@lemmy.ca
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    And she only has the big kids 50% of the time🙈🙈🙈🙈 and like you said Lemon is never home. What is she needing a break from!!! And yes it does feel like shit. I had a an actually professional mother who chose her career over family, took luxury vacations without us and spent the rest of her time with her husband. We were constantly shuttled between my grandparents, our father and school with brief stops at “home”. Where we longed to be but ended up feeling empty, shallow and needing when we were there ☹️ it was sad. We all wanted our mother’s attention very very deeply but it was hard to figure that out in real time when you don’t know any different. I’m in my late 40’s and I am still not quite right🙃 totally weird relationships with my “mother”.

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      I’m so sorry you went through that as a kid :( I can only imagine how hard that must’ve been to deal with. I can imagine that’s how it feels for Sarah’s kids, wanting attention and not knowing how to receive it unless they want to be on camera.

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        Thank you, It’s all good my kids and nephews had a magical childhood and are deeply loved. Gramie Zelle’s them money from 5 minutes away😂 I would love a reimbursement for my therapy🤣

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        Thank you, I made a strong effort to not continue the cycle of neglect and gave my kids the most traditional magical upbringing a lonely little me could hope for. I had great friends with great parents and learned would childhood should look like.

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            I’m not sure I am any kind of amazing person but yes I am a great parent. My childhood was a wild ride. I could probably write a book. A bi racial product of intellectual narcissists raised by wolves as a bizarre social science experiment in the early 80’s. I called them by their first names, my father was my mothers professor, only brown kid in all white private schools, drug addict step parent who was my sister’s piano teacher, bi sexual father diagnosed HIV positive in the early 90’s. I was put through it! On the plus side I am incredibly well read and educated, was exposed to art, culture and the theater, etc. But in all honesty just wanted to have a birthday party at McDonalds and parents that loved me like everyone else! Fortunately Birdies big kids father seems to be very grounded so they may turn out ok-ish. Well I really hi jacked this thread🫣 Just needed to vent all that out to some internet strangers 🤪Thanks you for the therapy sesh fellow snarkers.