Trying to make sense of things at the moment and have been talking to a couple of people in RL regarding childhood and upbringing. Talking about it has dragged up a load of negative feelings but I don't know if I have perhaps got this out of proportion in my head and just need to let it be. So I just wondered if anyone has had similar experiences to me and how they handled it at the time and the impact it has now.
My parents relationship was awful. Not physically violent towards each other but verbally awful. Regular arguments where they would stop speaking for weeks on end and use me as a go between. On holiday on one occasion and mum walked away, we spent the afternoon driving around to find her. Even now I am an adult mum still drags me in to it. Calls me when they are arguing. Repeatedly calls me.
Mum could be lovely in some ways. But her version of discipline was to smack. On a few occasions it would be repeated strikes unti she was out of breath but then she would feel all guilty and want to hug me. Which I always found very confusing.
Dad has always been very opinionated. Can't disagree with him about anything. So it's at the stage now where I don't have any real conversation with him
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Onlyonce · 04/05/2016 21:49
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