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To ask the worst things your parents have said to you?

313 replies

BradleyGreenToes · 04/01/2025 19:33

I’ll start -
I’m a slut
I’m a failure without any friends
I’m irrelevant to the family because I don’t have children

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spottedinthewilds · 04/01/2025 19:55

My mother said it was the reason why my parents got divorced. Apparently I wasn't an easy child and always fought with my sister.

My dad had an affair. My mother was utterly vile.

Narkacist · 04/01/2025 19:56

If everyone else knew what you were really like, they wouldn’t like you.
I made you, I can do whatever I want to you / it’s not your hair, it’s mine, I made it.

I’m never sure which personality disorder she has, but I’m pretty sure she’s got one.

emmax1980 · 04/01/2025 19:56

I get judged by my mum as well as criticism yet people say aww, I hope you will speak to your mum you only get one

Enko · 04/01/2025 19:57

From my mum
You are always so weird when you come back from your dad's..

I was 8 years old saw my dad once every 3 weeks.

BradleyGreenToes · 04/01/2025 19:58

tellitonthemountains · 04/01/2025 19:54

OP, did our parents attend the same parenting course?

My mum repeatedly told me I didn’t have any friends when I was a kid and teenager. Odd as I had loads and she didn’t have any.

When I did fall out with some friends at school in my teens, both parents were initially very supportive, but at the first small argument – “None of your friends like you”

The other one that stuck from my mum was telling me when I was about 5 that I was just a blob on the horizon and she only had 1 child (that being our grown up brother – she told this to me, 5, my younger brother, 3, while drunk.) Mad stuff.

Sorry you’ve had that experience. I think some people are just very emotionally immature.

Are you in contact with them now?

sorry you’ve been through all that @tellitonthemountains
My father is dead now (good riddence) and I’m NC with my mother but she keeps hassling me to get back in contact. I’ve repeatedly forgiven her throughout my life but not any more.

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DustyMaiden · 04/01/2025 19:59

When I announced my pregnancy after a stillbirth my DM said “well I’m not buying it anything, I wasted my money last time,

ShinyPrettyThings87 · 04/01/2025 20:00

Adding to say, what a sad, disturbing thread this is. It feels good to vent a little, it weirdly feels good to know we all weren't alone, but what a sad read it is. Thoughts are with everyone who grew up/currently dealing with shit that our parents should have dealt with themselves before having kids. No wonder mental health issues are on the rise, let's hope we're breaking the chain with the next generation. God knows I'm trying my best to never be like mine.

BradleyGreenToes · 04/01/2025 20:00

DustyMaiden · 04/01/2025 19:59

When I announced my pregnancy after a stillbirth my DM said “well I’m not buying it anything, I wasted my money last time,

I’m so sorry, that is vile.

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nopenotplaying · 04/01/2025 20:01

You are too thin to be seen out wearing them (leggings at about 8 years old)

You know what you've done and you need to apologise properly (25 years on still don't know)

I don't want to talk about your children. I don't know them and they mean nothing to me.

Your dad wants nothing to do with you after what you've done (?)

No contact for approx 26 years, sporadic attempts to make contact (see examples above). I have severe mental health problems and can no longer cope with any contact.

Amicompletelyinsane · 04/01/2025 20:02

I'll never be attractive or get a man with the way I am..I was 14.

I'll never forget the day she sat me down to explain why my sibling was her favourite🙄

fakenamefornow · 04/01/2025 20:02

Name changed.
'It's all your fault I did this'
This was said to me after her failed suicide attempt when I was 15.

Pennyplant19 · 04/01/2025 20:02

I've always been anti animal testing, always buying cruelty free beauty products (but never shouting about it and completely non judgemental on those that don't)
When I had my daughter my spiteful father said 'if your baby gets cancer it'll be interesting to see your morals then, you'll be refusing treatment will you?'
Interestingly he died of cancer 4 years later - can't say I shed any tears. Horrible man.

BradleyGreenToes · 04/01/2025 20:04

Amicompletelyinsane · 04/01/2025 20:02

I'll never be attractive or get a man with the way I am..I was 14.

I'll never forget the day she sat me down to explain why my sibling was her favourite🙄

That’s awful. I got the “your sister got the beauty, you got the brains” talk.

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BradleyGreenToes · 04/01/2025 20:05

Pennyplant19 · 04/01/2025 20:02

I've always been anti animal testing, always buying cruelty free beauty products (but never shouting about it and completely non judgemental on those that don't)
When I had my daughter my spiteful father said 'if your baby gets cancer it'll be interesting to see your morals then, you'll be refusing treatment will you?'
Interestingly he died of cancer 4 years later - can't say I shed any tears. Horrible man.

That’s KARMA 😀

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BradleyGreenToes · 04/01/2025 20:06

fakenamefornow · 04/01/2025 20:02

Name changed.
'It's all your fault I did this'
This was said to me after her failed suicide attempt when I was 15.

What a wicked thing to say

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Escapingafter50years · 04/01/2025 20:07

"If you were a proper mother your children would have been brought up properly and treated their grandparents with respect, and I would have a better relationship with them".

From the woman who never babysat once.

Last time I saw her. She's dead now thankfully, but I'll be a long time in therapy. I know now she was a covert narcissist. Horrific.

worriedgal · 04/01/2025 20:07

Wow
I'm incredibly sorry for everyone on this thread's experiences .
I'm inspired by all of you x

polyesterdress · 04/01/2025 20:08

'You're an awful nasty person and people don't actually like you. If they knew the real you they'd know how you're not actually this nice person you pretend to be. I know the real truth about how awful you are' - from my 'mother'

I was so young, maybe 9 or 10. I was, as I am now, an easy, likeable person. I think this was the first time I'd really understood that my mother hated me and begun to understand what a manipulative gas-lighter she was. I'm very grateful she can no longer harm me and is no longer in my life. Good riddance.

InformerYaNoSayDaddyMeSnowMeIGoBlameALickyBoom · 04/01/2025 20:09

BradleyGreenToes · 04/01/2025 19:48

I’m so sorry you have been through all that, you are so strong g to have survived.
My mother likes to blame my MH for my LC with her as that’s easier than accepting responsibility for her behaviour.

Its so much easier for people like them to blame those they made victims.

Me and my kids play a game of what mental illness my mother will say I have this year.

She gets a certain amount of my life fed back to her, not much because I don't keep in touch with anyone who knows her, but it's a very gossipy area.

So my daughter, a few years back was very ill and in hospital for a few weeks, my mother told everyone she wasn't really unwell, I just had munchausen by proxy (she had sepsis).

Then she heard one of my older dds had a girlfriend and told everyone that I had forced my dd to be a lesbian to cast shame on the family, and also to get money from the benefits office (somehow).

She has also told everyone (including going into several places I've worked) that I'm a sex addict and will try to have sex with everyone to get babies from them.

I also had cancer a few years back and she told everyone that I blamed her and her genetics for my cancer and that my blame was going to kill her, never even thought about her when I was going through it tbh.

As much as growing up with her was traumatic, the shit she spouts now is pretty funny.

She has also written a death letter telling me how shit I am and how great she was and all the awful things about me and how I am banned from her funeral and deathbed (as if I would go) and that's wht she has, apparently, left m in her will. Jokes on her because it will be getting burned. I won't even open it.

Hopefully you get to the point where you can just laugh at the bullshit op 💐

MistyWater · 04/01/2025 20:10

Amongst the general nastiness, telling me I was fat and calling me a slut my favourite, and how I wished it was true, was that I must have been swapped at birth because she couldn’t have spawned a child like me!

CheeseTime · 04/01/2025 20:11

‘Why do people have children?’. 🤔
Thanks Dad .

wishuponamoon21 · 04/01/2025 20:11

My mother "I wish I'd killed your whilst it was legal", I was 13. Needless to say I have nothing to do with her as an adult

fakenamefornow · 04/01/2025 20:11

And from my dad after my brother died.
'And now we're only left with you'
He didn't say it but I could feel 'I wish it had been you' on the tip of his tongue.

BradleyGreenToes · 04/01/2025 20:11

InformerYaNoSayDaddyMeSnowMeIGoBlameALickyBoom · 04/01/2025 20:09

Its so much easier for people like them to blame those they made victims.

Me and my kids play a game of what mental illness my mother will say I have this year.

She gets a certain amount of my life fed back to her, not much because I don't keep in touch with anyone who knows her, but it's a very gossipy area.

So my daughter, a few years back was very ill and in hospital for a few weeks, my mother told everyone she wasn't really unwell, I just had munchausen by proxy (she had sepsis).

Then she heard one of my older dds had a girlfriend and told everyone that I had forced my dd to be a lesbian to cast shame on the family, and also to get money from the benefits office (somehow).

She has also told everyone (including going into several places I've worked) that I'm a sex addict and will try to have sex with everyone to get babies from them.

I also had cancer a few years back and she told everyone that I blamed her and her genetics for my cancer and that my blame was going to kill her, never even thought about her when I was going through it tbh.

As much as growing up with her was traumatic, the shit she spouts now is pretty funny.

She has also written a death letter telling me how shit I am and how great she was and all the awful things about me and how I am banned from her funeral and deathbed (as if I would go) and that's wht she has, apparently, left m in her will. Jokes on her because it will be getting burned. I won't even open it.

Hopefully you get to the point where you can just laugh at the bullshit op 💐

I’m glad you have your own lovely family now and can laugh at her batshit craziness 😀

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AnnaBegins · 04/01/2025 20:11

Both parents told me I was a mistake. I'd worked that out from the short gap between their wedding and my date of birth to be honest!

When I had my first DC, they told all my family that I wouldn't let them see the baby. I had concerned aunties ringing me up telling me to include them. They'd seen us twice a week including being the first people to meet the baby. Hmm