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Have you ever found something belonging to your parents that made you see them in a different light?

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Screenager · 30/10/2025 18:37

When I was a teen I found a sex toy in my mum’s drawer. I shouldn’t have been snooping.

It made me think of her differently, and I felt a bit weird about it for a bit.

I’m over it now, I think 🤔

OP posts:
BauhausOfEliott · 06/11/2025 10:21

Hons123 · 04/11/2025 19:34

And? It was a perversion in the XVI century, it is a perversion now. I don't understand. Just recently an article came out 'Prince Andrew, his sex aids and other sordid things' - see, sordid. That is right.

It wasn’t a perversion in the 16th century, though.

You still haven’t explained why you think it’s perverted.

Newsenmum · 06/11/2025 11:55

Dartmoorcheffy · 30/10/2025 21:31

We had a volatile relationship. I was a nightnare teen but I was adopted at 6 weeks and in my teens had a lot of issues with this. She wasn't a person to give hugs or be affectionate at all. As I've got older I can look back and see what a narcissist she was. I had a great relationship with my dad and was definitely a daddy's girl. She was extremely jealous. She admitted this when I was much older.

They couldn't have biological children because of cancer treatment my dad had that had left him infertile which I believe is also related to why she was often cold towards me.

My basic needs were met but she didn't have a motherly instinct at all. She wanted the perfect child and I most certainly wasn't that.

And yet she adopted you? Adopted babies need even more love! How awful that she has given you multiple traumas.
im so sorry.

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