Still confused
I’m in my mid-late 20s and I have a confusing relationship w my parents. They’re very wealthy and they hold financial help over my head and I know they’re trying to trap me from being able to become financially independent which is easy for them because they have a lot of money. It’s very confusing and I really felt like posting something like this because I think it might help me feel better. When I was a kid, probably 5-7 years old, my father would always say to me “you never make me or your mother feel like you love us” as he’d be taking his anger out on me about something in his life that had nothing to do with me. And it took me up until recently, 20 or so years, to realize that it WASN’T MY fault. Like how can you get mad at a 6 year old kid for APPARENTLY? not trying hard enough to show their parents love? I mean I might be wrong so please give me your opinions but I feel like that’s not a normal thing to say to a child that age because aren’t children supposed to learn how to love from their parents? He would regularly tell me they don’t feel like I love them and he would say “You never run up to us and hug us and tell us I love you”. Please correct me if I’m the problem/wrong but I truly feel like it shouldn’t have been my responsibility or job as a 5,6,7,8+ year old to do that. I don’t know I’m just super confused and always have been about my parents.